V. R. G. XX

Traité de Washington.

\nto the United States free of duty, from and after the date of a proclamation by the Président of the United States, declaring that he has satisfactory évidence that the said Colony of Newfoundland has consented, in a due and proper manner, to have the provisions of the said Articles eighteenth to twenty-fîfth inclusive, of the said Treaty extended to it, and to allow the United States the full benefits of ail the stipulations therein contained, and shall be so admitted free of duty, so long as the said Articles eighteenth to twenty-fîfth inclusive, and Article thirtieth of said Treaty, shall remain in force, accoiding to the terms and conditions of Article thirty-third of said Treaty. «

And whereas an Act was passed by the Governor Législative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland in Législative session convened in the thirtyseventh year of Her Majesty's reign and assented to by Her Majesty on the the twelfth day of May 1874. entitled »An act to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washington as far as they relate to this Colony. «

The undersigned Hamilton Fish , Secretary of State of the United States, and the Right Honorable Sir Edward Thomton, one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America duly authorized for this purpose by their respective Governments, having met togeiher at Washington , and having found that the laws required to carry the Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Articles XXX and XXXII of the Treaty aferesaid into opération have been passed by the Congress of the United States on the one part, and by the Impérial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada and by the Législature of Prince Edwards Island, and the Législature of Newfoundland on the other, hereby déclare that Articles XVIII to XXV inclusive, and Article XXX of the Treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, shall take effect in accordance with Article XXXIII of said Treaty between the citizens of the United States of America and Her Majesty's subjects in the Colony of Newfoundland on the first day of June next.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed this protocol and have hereunto affixed their sèals.

Done in duplicate at Washington this twenty-eighth day of May 1874.

Hamilton Fish. Edwd. Thomton.

États- Unis . Grande- Bretagne .

ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, GRANDE-BRETAGNE

Protocoles et décision arbitrale de la Commission réunie à Halifax, du 15 juin au 23 novembre 1877, en vertu du Traité de Washington du 8 mai 1871*), pour déterminer la compensation à payer, par le Gouvernement des États-Unis, en échange des privilèges accordés aux citoyens américains relativement aux pêcheries.

Pari. Paper [2056] 1878**).

Protocol No. 1.

Record of the Proceedings of the Commission appointed under Articles XXII and XXIII of the Treaty of Washington, of the 8th May, 1871, at the first Conférence held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 15th day of

June, 1877 : —

The Conférence was convened at the Législative Council Chamber, at Halifax, in accordance with an arrangement previously made between the three Commissioners.

The Commissioners who were présent and produced their respective powers, which were examined and found to be in good and due form, were: —

His Excellency M. Maurice Delfosse, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, at Washington, named by the Ambassador at London of His Impérial Majesty the Emperor of Austria-Hungary ;

The Hon. Ensign H. Kellogg, named by the Président of the United States ; and

Sir Alexander T. Galt, K.C.M.G., named by Her Britannic Majesty.

The Hon. Dwight Foster attended the Conférence as Agent of the United States, and Francis Clare Ford, Esq., attended as Agent of Her Britannic Majesty.

The Hon. Ensign H. Kellogg then proposed that M. Delfosse should préside over the labours of the Commission; and

M. Delfosse, having expressed his acknowledgments, assumed the Presidency.

Sir A. T. Galt then requested M. Delfosse to name some suitable person to act as Secretary of the Commission. M. Delfosse named J. H. G. Bergne, Esq., of the Foreign Office, London, who accepted the position.