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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

MY LORD,

No. 824.

(NEWFOUNDLAND.)

LAW OFFICERS to FOREIGN OFFICE.

We are honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Mr. Hammond's

Temple, May 29, 1873. letter of the 26th instant, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us a letter from the Colonial Office forwarding a copy of an Act which had been passed by the Legislature of Newfoundland for carrying out the provisions of the Treaty of Washington in regard to fisheries, and he was to request us to take the document into consideration, and report to your Lordship at our earliest convenience our opinion whether it sufficiently complied with the terms of the Treaty of Washing- ton, especially with reference to the proviso at the end of the first section of the Act.

That a copy of the Treaty of Washington was annexed, and that he (Mr. Hammond) was to enclose a Despatch to Sir E. Thornton forwarding a draft of protocol fixing the 1st of July as the date at which the provisions of Articles 18 to 25 and Article 30 of the Treaty should come into operation, which he (Sir E. Thornton) had been autho- rised to sign if the United States Government concurred in it.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to

Report

That in our opinion the protocol which recites the Acts of the Imperial Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, and of the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island should also recite the Act passed by the Legislature of Newfoundland, particularly with reference to Article XXXII. of the Treaty of Washington, 1871.

In reference to the proviso at the end of the first section of the Act of Newfound- land, we are of opinion that the clause should be so framed as expressly to cover the close time for the herring fishery, and the observation by American fishermen of the rules and regulations imposed upon the fishermen of Newfoundland in that particular.

We have, &c. (Signed)

The Right Hon. the Earl Granville, K.G.

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J. D. COLERIDGE. G. JESSEL. J. P. DEANE.

o 16978.-895.

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