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Cape Breton, out of the said gulf, the subjects of the Most Christian King shall not 

 be permitted to exercise the said fishery but at the distance of 15 leagues from the 

 coasts of the Island of Cape Breton; and the fishery on the coasts of Nova Scotia or 

 Acadia, and everywhere else out of the said gulf, shall remain on the foot of former 

 treaties. 



Art. VI. The King of Great Britain cedes the Islands of St. Pierre and Macquelon, 

 in full right, to His Most Christian Majesty, to serve as a shelter to the French fisher- 

 men; and his said Most Christian Majesty engages not to fortify the said islands; 

 to erect no buildings upon them but merely for the conveniency of the fishery; and 

 to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for the poUce. 



Art. XVII. His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifica- 

 tions which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places 

 of the territory of Spain in that part of the world, four months after the ratification 

 of the present treaty: and His Catholic Majesty shall not permit His Britannic 

 Majesty's subjects, or their workmen, to be disturbed or molested under any pretense 

 whatsoever in the said places, in their occupation of cutting, loading, and carrying 

 away log-wood; and for this purpose, they may build, without hindrance, and occupy, 

 without interruption, the houses and magazines necessary for them, for their families, 

 and for their eilects: and His Catho'ic Majesty assures to them, by this article, the 

 full enjoyment of those advantages and powers on the Spanish coasts and territories, 

 as above stipulated, immediately fter the ratification of the, present treaty. 



Art. XVIII. His Catholic Majesty desists, as well for himself as tor his suc- 

 cessors, from all pretension which he may have formed in favor of the Guipuscoans, 

 and his other subjects, to the right of fishing in the neighborhood of the island of 

 Newfoundland. 



TREATY OF VERSAILLES, SEPTEMBER 3, 1783, BETWEEN FRANCE 

 AND GREAT BRITAIN' 



Art. IV. His Majesty the King of Great Britain is maintained in his right to the 

 Island of Newfoundland, and to the adjacent islands, as the whole were assured to him 

 by the thirteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht; excepting the Islands of St. Pierre 

 and Miquelon, which are ceded in full right, by the present treaty, to His Most Chris- 

 tian Majesty. 



Art. V. His Majesty the Most Christian King, in order to prevent the quarrels 

 which have hitherto arisen between the two nations of England and France, consents 

 to renounce the right of fishing, which belongs to him in virtue of the aforesaid article 

 of the treaty of Utrecht from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, situated on the eastern 

 coast of Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north latitude; and His Majesty the King of 

 Great Britain consents on his part, that the fishery assigned to the subjects of His 

 Most Christian Majesty, beginning at the said Cape St. John, passing to the north, 

 and descending by the western coast of the Island of Newfoundland, shall extend to 

 the place called Cape Raye, situated in forty-seven degrees, fifty minutes latitude. 

 The French fishermen shall enjoy the fishery which is assigned to them by the present 

 article, as they had the right to enjoy that which was assigned to them by the treaty 

 of Utrecht. 



Art. VI. With regard to the fishery in the Gulf of St. Laurence, the French shall 

 continue to exercise it conformably to the fifth article of the Treaty of Paris. . . . 



'Appendix, U. S. Case, p. S3; Appendix, British Case, p. 11. 



