APPENDIX 

 TREATIES 



TREATY OF UTRECHT, MARCH 31 -APRIL 11, 1713, BETWEEN FRANCE 

 AND GREAT BRITAIN' 



Art. XIII. The island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent islands, shall from 

 this time forward belong of right wholly to Britain; and to that end the town and 

 fortress of Placentia and whatever other places in the said island are in the possession 

 of the French, shall be yielded and given up, within 7 months from the exchange 

 of the ratifications of this treaty, or sooner if possible, by the Most Christian King, 

 to those who have a commission from the Queen of Great Britain for that purpose. 

 Nor shall the Most Christian King, his heirs and successors, or any of their subjects, 

 at any time hereafter lay claim to any right to the said island and islands, or to 

 any part of it or them. • Moreover it shall not be lawful tor the subjects of France 

 to fortify any place in the said Island of Newfoundland, or to erect any buildings 

 there, besides stages made of boards and huts necessary and usual for drying of fish; 

 or to resort to the said island, beyond the time necessary for fishing and drying of 

 fish. But it shall be allowed to the subjects of France to catch fish, and to dry 

 them on land, in that part only, and in no other besides that of the said Island of 

 Newioundland, which stretches from the place called Cape Bonavista to the northern 

 point of the said island, and from thence running down by the western side, reaches 

 as far as the place called Point Riche. But the island called Cape Breton, as also 

 all others, both in the mouth of the River St. Lawrence and in the gulf of the same 

 name, shall hereafter belong of right to the French; and the Most Christian King 

 shall have all manner of liberty to fortify any place or places there. . . . 



TREATY OF PARIS, FEBRUARY 10, 1763, BETWEEN FRANCE, 

 GREAT BRITAIN, AND SPAIN 2 



Art. V. The subjects of France shall have the liberty of fishing and drying on a 

 part of the coasts of the Island of Newfoundland, such as it is specified in the Xlllth 

 article of the treaty of Utrecht; which article is renewed and confirmed by the present 

 treaty, (except what relates to the Island of Cape Breton, as well as to the other islands 

 and coasts in the mouth and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence) ; And His Britannic Majesty 

 consents to leave to the subjects of the Most Christian King the liberty of fishing in 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on condition that the subjects of France do not exercise the 

 said fishery but at the distance of three leagues from all the coasts belonging to Great 

 Britain, as well those of the continent as those of the islands situated in the said Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the fishery on the coasts of the Island of 



'Appendix, U. S. Case, p. 51; Appendix, British Case, pp. 6, 7. 

 "Appendix, U. S. Case, p. 52; Appendix, British Case, pp. 7, 8. 



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