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fisheries. Whether that means the bank fisheries, or whether it 

 means the fisheries by outsiders, I do not know. I should think 

 that the latter would be the more complete reason for not publish- 

 ing them. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: It means they are not published 

 from Her Majesty's Stationery Ofiice, I think; that is all that is 

 contained in this letter. 



Senator Root: That is where he sent to get them. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: Yes. Her Majesty's Stationery 

 Ofiice, of course, is in England. Local regulations are not usually 

 pubhshed. 



The President: Perhaps "outside fisheries" is used ih con- 

 tradistinction to river fisheries. The following sentence leads me 

 to that supposition: 



"But your Excellency will observe that they do, in some instances at 

 least, affect the fisheries in the harbors of this province, which are now thrown 

 open to the fishermen ol the United States as weU as the river fisheries, which 

 are reserved to Her Majesty's subjects." 



Senator Root: Yes; I think that does have a bearing upon it; 

 that is, that they did, in some respects, protecting the rivers, run 

 the provisions into the harbors. 



The President: At first he considers them as not important 

 because principally they had referred only to river fisheries; but 

 in some respects they might also affect the harbor fisheries, and 

 therefore he considers them also, now, as material. That seems to 

 be the meaning. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: The very first paragraph makes 

 the distinction: "the outside fisheries" and "the fisheries in the 

 harbors." 



Senator Root: Well, he sent the statutes to the British Minis- 

 ter at Washington, who sent them to Mr. Marcy, and Mr. Marcy 

 examined them and approved them. And what were they ? There 

 is only one that can be deemed to be a re-enactment or representa- 

 tive in these revised statutes of any of these laws prior to 1818. 



