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of the island of Cape Breton out of the said gulf, the citizens of the said United 

 States shall not be permitted to exercise the said fishery, but at the distance 

 of fifteen leagues from the coasts of the island of Cape Breton." 



That is treating these coasts distributively and separately. It 

 is not treating of a great coast as a whole, as we shall think of it 

 when we sail back to America. It is treating specifically of the 

 shores and of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of the Mag- 

 dalen Islands, and of the coasts "as well those of the continent as 

 those of the islands, and the coasts of the Island of Cape Breton." 

 When they came to agree upon an article, they rejected the quite 

 narrow specification of Kmits within which the Americans might 

 fish, and they put in "any of the coasts." 



The President: But is the "any" also in the grant, or is it 

 only in the renunciation ? I think it is not in the grant. It is 

 only in the renunciation. In the treaty it reads: 



"And also on the coasts, bays, harbors, and creeks, from Mount Joli, 

 on the southern coast of Labrador." 



And, in the first part: 

 "on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland," etc. 



There is no " any." As to the drying and curing — 



Senator Root: In the treaty of 1818? 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: No, 1783. 



The President: Ah! In the treaty of 1783, you mean ? 



Senator Root: Yes. 



The President: Oh! I beg pardon. Well, I do not believe 

 it is there, either. 



Senator Root: They have a number of forms of this third 

 article of the treaty of 1783. The first one — 



The President: As to the drying and curing, the word "any" 

 is in, but not as to the right of fishing. 



Senator Root: The first form that they agreed upon for the 

 treaty of 1783 gave general reciprocal fishing rights both to United 



