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 CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1818. 240 of the coast of Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereofi shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose, with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors, of the ground. And the United States hereby renounce, forever, any liberty Renuneiaiion heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, by the United or cure fish, on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, §Q§;‘;°5:f, °‘? creeks, or harbours, of his Britannic Majesty’s dominions in America, except, 5:3% not included within the abovementioned limits : Provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours, for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing, fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them. ARTICLE 2. It is agreed, that a line drawn from the most northwestern point of Definition of the Lake of the Woods, alon the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, gm "é’"h°"j.‘ h or if the said point shall not he in the forty-ninth parallel of north lati- u§1_?,z,:),j:,,° tude, then that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as Lake of the the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of gggsdjww *l‘° north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along m;,,,? mm` and with the said parallel, shall be the line of demarkation between the territories of the United States and those of his Britannic Majesty, and that the said line shall form the northern boundary of the said territories of the United States, and the southern boundary of the territories of his Britannic Majesty, from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. ARTICLE 3. It is agreed, that any country that may be claimed by either party on Country claimthe northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, °d by °“h“' . . . . part westward shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation or this Stony of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years Mountains, to from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels,  ‘3ni:5‘l‘ citizens, and subjects, of the two powers: it being well understood, g¤;_g6,iggg_ that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves. ARTICLE 4. All the provisions of the convention " to regulate the commerce Convention of between the territories of the United States and of his Britannic }*3{;‘lfgi;fcg‘;_ Majesty," concluded at London, on the third day of July, in the year t;,,,,,,,; {0,},,,, of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, with the exception yours. of the clause which limited its duration to four years, and excepting, A“'°·l’·228· also, so far as the same was affected by the declaration of his Majesty respecting the Island of St. Helena, are hereby extended and continued in force for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the said convention were herein specially recited. ARTICLE 5. Whereas it was agreed by the first article of the treaty of Ghent, lkeferepcego that “All territory, places, and possessions, whatsoever, taken by either ,,°;\':;°$·i-£en,_ party from the other, during the war, or which may be taken after the vox.. vm. 32