TREATIES 391 



The French may therefore fish there for every kind of fish, including bait and also 

 shell fish.. They may enter any port or harbor on the said coast and may there 

 obtain supplies or bait and shelter on the same conditions as the inhabitants of New- 

 foundland, but they will remain subject to the local Regulations in force; they may 

 also fish at the mouths of the rivers, but without going beyond a straight line drawn 

 between the two extremities of the banks, where the river enters the sea. 



They shall not make use of stake-nets or fixed engines without permission of the 

 local authorities. 



On the above-mentioned portion of the coast, British subjects and French citizens 

 shall be subject alike to the laws and Regulations now in force, or which may here- 

 after be passed for the establishment of a close time in regard to any particular kind 

 of fish, or for the improvement of the fisheries. Notice of any fresh laws or Regu- 

 lations shall be given to the Government of the French Republic three months before 

 they come into operation. 



The policing of the fishing on the above-mentioned portion of the coast, and for 

 prevention of illicit liquor traffic and smuggling of spirits, shall form the subject of 

 Regulations drawn up in agreement by the two Governments. 



Art. III. A pecuniary indemnity shall be awarded by His Britannic Majesty's 

 Government to the French citizens engaged in fishing or the preparation of fish on 

 the "Treaty Shore," who are obliged, either to abandon the establishments they 

 possess there, or to give up their occupation, in consequence of the modification 

 introduced by the present Convention into the existing state of affairs. 



This indemnity cannot be claimed by the parties interested unless they have been 

 engaged in their business prior to the closing of the fishing season of 1903. 



Claims for indemnity shall be submitted to an Arbitral Tribunal, composed of 

 an ofiScer of each nation, and, in the event of disagreement, of an Umpire appointed 

 in accordance with the procedure laid down by Article XXXII of The Hague Con- 

 vention. The details regulating the constitution of the Tribunal and the conditions 

 of the inquiries to be instituted for the purpose of substantiating the claims, shall 

 form the subject of a special Agreement between the two Governments. 



CIRCULAR NOTE OF M. DELCASSfi, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO 

 FRENCH DIPLOMATIC AGENTS, APRIL 12, 19041 



M. DELCASsfi, Minister op Foreign Appaies, to the Ambassadors of the 

 French Republic at Berlin, Berne, Constantinople, Madrid, St. Petersburg, 

 Vienna, Washington, to His Majesty the King or Italy, to thE Pope, i'o the 

 Minister of the Republic at Tangier, and to the Diplomatic Agent and 

 Consul General of France at Cairo 



Paris, April 12, 1904. 



The great interests both of a moral and material nature which are involved in the 

 entente between England and France called forth a peaceful settlement of the ques- 

 tions upon which the two countries were divided and whence under certain cir- 

 cumstances a conflict might have arisen. Both at London and in Paris the two 

 governments took these matters into consideration. The visits exchanged last year 

 between King Edward and the President of France showed that public opinion on 

 both sides of the Channel was favorably disposed toward an arrangement. 

 ' Oral Argument, Vol. II, pp. 1425-1426. 



