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 RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 5, 1854. 1089 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. gum., 5, 1854- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a treaty between the United States of America and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Wash; pigton, on the 5th day of June last, which treaty is, word for word, as ollows :—-— The government of the United States being equally desirous with her pmmbig Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to avoid further misunderstanding between their respective citizens and subjects, in regard to the extent of the right of fishing on the coasts of British North America, secured to each by article 1 of a convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed at London on the 20th day of October, 1818; and being also desirous to regulate the commerce and navigation between their respective territories and people, and more especially between her Majesty’s possessions in North America and the United States, in such manner as to render the same reciprocal1y beneficial and satisfactory, have, respectively, named plenipotentiaries to confer and agree thereupon-·that is to Negotistors. say, the President of the United States of America, William L. Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States, and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, James, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Lord Bruce and Elgin, a. peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, and governor-general in and over all her Britannic Majesty’s provinces on the continent of North America, and in and over the island of Prince Edward-who, afterhaving communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :.— Amvienn 1. It is agreed by the high contracting parties that, in addi- Inhabitants or tion to the liberty secured to the United States fishermen by the above- g§,;‘;;°’ Q},Qf"°d mentioned convention of October 20, 1818, of taking, curing, and drying legs, mike mh. fish on certain coasts of the British North American colonies therein de- ¤¤¤¤· fined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with the subjects of her Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind, except shell-fish, on the sea·coasts and shores, and in the bays, harbors, and creeks of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward’s Island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish: provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coast in their occupancy for the same purpose. It is understood that the aboveunentioned liberty applies solely to the sea fishery, and that the salmon and shad nsheries, and all nsheries in rivers and the months of rivers, are hereby reserved, exclusively, for British fishermen. _ And it is further agreed, that in order to prevent or settle any dispntes as to the places to which the reservation of exclusive right to British Gommssicue, nshermen, contained in this article, and that of 1'ishermen of the United to determine me States, contained in the next succeeding article, apply, each of the high t'3§f"°d “‘h°" VOL. x. Tamar.- 137