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men shall not go beyond this line. His Majesty is firmly persuaded that the King 

 of Great Britain will give like orders to the English fishermen. . . . 



TREATY OF PARIS, SEPTEMBER 3, 1783, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN 

 AND UNITED STATES' 



Definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between His Britannic 

 Majesty and the United States of America. — Signed at Paris, 

 THE 3RD of September, 1783 



Art. III. It is agreed, that the People of The United States shall continue to enjoy 

 unmolested the right to take Fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other 

 Banks of Newfoundland; also in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in 

 the Sea, where the Inhabitants of both Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. 

 And also that the Inhabitants of The United States shall have liberty to take fish 

 of every kind on such part of the Coast of Newfoundland as British Fishermen shall 

 use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island), and also on the Coasts, Bays, 

 and Creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America; and that 

 the American Fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled 

 Bays, Harbors, and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long 

 as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same, or either of them, shall 

 be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure fish at such 

 Settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, 

 Proprietors, or Possessors of the ground. 



UNRATIFIED TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION, 



DECEMBER 31, 1806, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND 



THE UNITED STATES " 



Art. 12. And whereas it is expedient to make special provisions respecting the 

 maritime jurisdiction of the high contracting parties on the coast of their respective 

 possessions in North America on account of peculiar circumstances belonging to those 

 coasts, it is agreed that in all cases where one of the said high contracting parties 

 shall be engaged in war, and the other shall be at peace, the belligerent Power shall 

 not stop except for the purpose hereafter mentioned, the vessels of the neutral Power, 

 or the unarmed vessels of other nations, within five marine miles from the shore belong- 

 ing to the said neutral Power on the American seas. 



Provided that the said stipulation shall not take effect in favor of the ships of 

 any nation or nations which shall not have agreed to respect the limits aforesaid, as 

 the line of maritime jurisdiction of the said neutral State. And it is further stipulated, 

 that if either of the high contracting parties shall be at war with any nation or nations, 

 which shall not have agreed to respect the said special limit or Une of maritime juris- 

 diction herein agreed upon, such contracting party shall have the right to stop or 

 search any vessel beyond the limit of a cannon shot, or three marine miles from the 

 said coast of the neutral Power, for the purpose of ascertaining the nation to which 

 such vessel shall belong; and with respect to the ships and property of the nation or 

 nations not having agreed to respect the aforesaid line of jurisdiction, the belligerent 

 Power shall exercise the same rights as if this article did not exist; and the several 



'Appendix, U. S. Case, p. 23; Appendix, British Case, p. 12. 



' Appendix, U. S. Counter Case, p. i8; Appendix, British Case, p. 24. 



