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3127.

SIR,

No. 807.

(CANADA.)

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

WITH reference to your letter of the 17th instant, I am directed by Lord

Foreign Office, March 31, 1873. Granville to state to you, for the information of Lord Kimberley, that the Bill for carrying into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washington respecting fisheries as passed by the United States House of Representatives and enclosed in Sir E. Thornton's Despatch, No. 88, of the 24th ultimo, has been referred to the Law Officers, and that they have reported that in their opinion the Bill complies with the provisions of the Treaty of Washington.

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

I am, &c. (Signed) TENTERDEN.

⚫ 16978.-16,

24.~+5/86.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TELEC.O. 885

11 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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