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... cargoes ; nor was the right to do these acts questioned until 1870 , when Canada was trying to coerce the United States into making a treaty which would open our markets to her fishery products . Then she seized our vessels for buying ...
... cargoes ; nor was the right to do these acts questioned until 1870 , when Canada was trying to coerce the United States into making a treaty which would open our markets to her fishery products . Then she seized our vessels for buying ...
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... cargoes . It is evident that her policy in doing this has been to give the impression , when this new treaty was made , that she granted a privilege to our fishermen , when in fact by this clause of the present treaty they are to be ...
... cargoes . It is evident that her policy in doing this has been to give the impression , when this new treaty was made , that she granted a privilege to our fishermen , when in fact by this clause of the present treaty they are to be ...
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... of 1886 which excluded our fishermen from trading or transshipping cargoes in Canadian ports destined for the United States . Canada , however , claims that the British act of 1819 excludes American fishermen from buying 7.
... of 1886 which excluded our fishermen from trading or transshipping cargoes in Canadian ports destined for the United States . Canada , however , claims that the British act of 1819 excludes American fishermen from buying 7.
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... cargoes , and that they should be entitled , as one of their rights , to buy bait in all ports of the British provinces , we see in this treaty which the Senate is called upon to ratify a positive denial of these rights and privileges ...
... cargoes , and that they should be entitled , as one of their rights , to buy bait in all ports of the British provinces , we see in this treaty which the Senate is called upon to ratify a positive denial of these rights and privileges ...
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... cargo may be confiscated for this violation of the treaty . There is no definition here of what constitutes " preparing to fish , " nor is it shown how it may be determined that there might be an in- tent to fish in inshore waters as ...
... cargo may be confiscated for this violation of the treaty . There is no definition here of what constitutes " preparing to fish , " nor is it shown how it may be determined that there might be an in- tent to fish in inshore waters as ...
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American fisheries American fishermen Article XV bays and harbors bays or harbors Britain Britannic Majesty British North America British plenipotentiaries British provinces buying bait Canada and Newfoundland Canadian ports Cape Ray cargoes CHARLES TUPPER citizens coast of Newfoundland coasts of Canada commercial rights commissioner Congress considering and adjusting convention of October creeks cure fish delimitation duties on fish enjoyed entering the bays February 15 fishing vessels fishing-vessels of Canada foreign fresh fish Government GROVER CLEVELAND high contracting parties inhabitants inshore Joseph Chamberlain Levi Woodbury Magdalen Islands navigation negotiations Nova Scotia October 20 Parliament of Canada payment of duty preparing to fish present treaty President purpose Putnam question ratification regulations SACKVILLE WEST SEAL Secretary secured Senate shores Strait of Canso surrendered T. F. BAYARD take fish tariff therein thereof three marine miles tion trading-vessels transship treaty of 1818 United States fishing-vessels unlawfully fishing Washington waters of Canada
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Page 17 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America not included within the above-mentioned limits...
Page 16 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 16 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 17 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such...
Page 19 - States and of the islands aforesaid, 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 the fishermen of the United States in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 17 - Indians dwelling on either side of the said boundary line, freely to pass and repass by land or inland navigation, into the respective territories and countries of the two parties, on the continent of America, (the country within the limits of the Hudson's Bay Company only excepted,) and to navigate all the lakes, rivers, and waters thereof, and freely to carry on trade and commerce with each other.
Page 30 - The United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas Isaac Gullett of Butler County, Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States...
Page 6 - America, may be entered at the proper Custom-house and conveyed in transit, without the payment of duties, through the territory of the United States...
Page 26 - Gully; for Egmont Bay, in Prince Edward Island, the line from the Light at Cape Egmont to the Light at West Point; and off St. Ann's Bay, in the Province of Nova Scotia, the line from...
Page 26 - Egmont Bay, in Prince Edward Island, the line from the Light at Cape Egmont to the Light at West Point; and off St. Ann's Bay, in the Province of Nova Scotia, the line from the Light at Point Anconi to the nearest point on the opposite shore of the mainland.