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Akt. II. The limits, within which the general right of fishery is exclusively reserved 

 to the subjects of the two kingdoms respectively, are fixed (with the exception of those 

 in Granville Bay) at 3 miles distance from low water mark. 



With respect to bays, the mouths of which do not exceed ten miles in width, the 

 3 mile distance is measured from a straight line drawn from headland to headland. 



Art. III. The miles mentioned in the present regulations are geographical miles, 

 of which 60 make a degree of latitude. 



(Heetslett, Vol. VI, p. 416.) 



Treaty between Great Britain and France. November 11, 1867. 



Art. I. British fishermen shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery within the dis- 

 tance of 3 miles from low water mark, along the whole extent of the coasts of the 

 British Islands. 



The distance of 3 miles fixed as the general limit for the exclusive right of fishery 

 upon the coasts of the two countries shall, with respect to bays, the mouths of which 

 do not exceed ten miles in width be measured from a straight line drawn from head- 

 land to headland. 



The miles mentioned in the present convention are geographical miles whereof 60 

 make a degree of latitude. 



(Hertslett's Treaties, Vol. XII, p. 11 26, British Case App., p. 38.) 



Great Britain and North German Confederation. British notice to fishermen by the 

 Board of Trade. Board of Trade, November 1868. 



Her Majesty's Government and the North German Confederation having come to 

 an agreement respecting the regulations to be observed by British fishermen fishing 

 off the coasts of the North German Confederation, the following notice is issued for 

 the guidance and warning of British fishermen: . 



I. The exclusive fishery limits of the German Empire are designated by the Imperial 

 Government as follows : that tract of the sea which extends to a distance of 3 sea miles 

 from the extremest limits which the ebb leaves dry of the German North Sea Coast 

 of the German Islands or flats lying before it, as well as those bays and incurvations 

 of the coast which are ten sea miles or less in breadth reckoned from the extremest 

 points of the land and the flats, must be considered as under the territorial sovereignty 

 of North Germany. 



(Hertslett's Treaties, Vol. XIV, p. 1055.) 



Great Britain and German Empire. British Board of Trade, December 1874. 



(Same recital referring to an arrangement entered into between Her Britannic 

 Majesty and the German Government.) 



Then the same articles follow with the alteration of the words "German Empire" 

 for "North Germany." 



(Hertslett's, Vol. XIV, p. 1058.) 



Treaty between Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and the Nether- 

 lands for regulating the police of the North Sea Fisheries, May 6, 1882. 



II. Les pecheurs nationaux jouiront du droit exdusif de peche dans le rayon de 3 

 miUes, a partir de la laisse de basse mer, le long de toute I'tendue des c6tes de leurs 

 pays respectifs, ainsi que des lies et des bancs qui en d6pendent. 



Pour les baies le rayon de 3 milles sera mesur6 a partir d'une ligne droite, tirfe, en 

 travers de la bale, dans la partie la plus rapprochde de I'entrfie, au premier point oil 

 I'ouverture n'excedera pas 10 milles. 



(Hertslett, Vol. XV, p. 794.) 



British Order in Council, October 23rd, 1877. 



