ARGUMENT OF MR. ROOT 321 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: That is the old statute that pro- 

 vides for fishery regulations made by the coroner or the Justice of 

 the Peace. 



Senator Root: That is another one, that I referred to the other 

 day. Then, there is another statute of 1788, to be found in the 

 British Appendix at p. 592. 



Judge Gray: Where in the British Appendix is the first, the 

 statute of 1785? 



Senator Root: The statute of 1785 is in the British Appendix 

 at p. 554; the statute of 1788 is in the British Appendix at p. 592. 



Along down in 1887, during the discussion of the Bayard- 

 Chamberlain treaty. Lord SaHsbury makes a note, upon one of the 

 American projects, with regard to Chaleur, in which he refers to 

 a subsequent statute as amounting to a claim to have territorial 

 jurisdiction over it. That was a statute passed in 1851, which is 

 not in the Appendix, and does not appear except that Lord Salisbury 

 refers to it. 



Then, with regard to Miramichi, there was the statute of 1799, 

 which appears in the British Appendix at p. 597, and one of 1810, 

 which appears in the British Appendix at p. 603. I think those 

 were the only ones counted upon. The first, of 1799, was chiefly 

 a shore statute, but I think it prohibits the casting of gurry for 

 several leagues out from the shore, and so far as to be plainly apph- 

 cable only to citizens of New Brunswick. And the one of 1810 

 provides for placing buoys in Miramichi, and for the imposition of 

 dues upon vessels coming into the bay. 



The President: The statute of 1799, concerning Miramichi, 

 in section 2 refers also to the placing of seines, or nets, in the bay or 

 river Miramichi or its branches except as therein before provided 

 for, except at the places admitted by section i. 



Senator Root: Yes. 



The Attorney-General: This statute for settling the boun- 

 daries is on p. 572. 



Senator Root: Yes; Mr. Anderson has just called my atten- 



