The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-12 00:00:00

EVE N INC 4 EDITION.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER,

lIONVIETIOX BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND Tfil KING
oy THE FRENCM, DEFINING AND REOULATIN• THE
LIMITS OP THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF THE OYSTER
AND OTHER FISHERY ON THE COASTS OF GREAT
BRITAIN ♦ND 01 FRANCE.
Signed at Paris, August 2, 1839.
Whereas his late Majesty the King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his
➢Majesty the King of the French, appointed in the
year 1837, a Mixed Commission, for the purpose of
ascertaining and defining the limits within which
the subjects of the two countries iv3spectively should
be at liberty to fish for oysters between the island
of Jersey and the neighbouring coast of France :
And whereas the Commissioners so appointed
have agreed upon certain lines, as marked in a chart
hereinafter referred to, as the limits above-men-
tioned, and have also agreed upon certain arrange-
ments which they conceive to be calculated to pre-
vent the recurrence of disputes, which have at
various times arisen between the fishermen of the

two countries:
It has been deemed expedient by her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, and by his Majesty the King of
the French, that the limits agreed upon, and the
arrangements proposed by the said Commissioners,
should be recorded and sanctioned by a convention
to be concluded between their said Majesties.
And whereas the high contracting parties have
also considered it desirable to define and regulate
the limits within which the general right of fishery
on all parts of the coasts of the two countries shall
be exclusively reserved to the subjects of Great
Britain and of France respectively; the said high
contracting parties have therefore named as their
plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that is to say--
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon.
Granville, Earl Granville, Peer of the Realm,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Or-
der of the Bath, a Privy Councillor, and her Bri-
tannia Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of the
French ;
And his Majesty the King of the French,
Jean de Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, Marshal
and Peer of France, Grand Cross of his Royal
Order of the Legion of Honour, &c., his Minister
and Secretary of State for the Department of Fo-
reign Affairs, President of the Council of Ministers;
Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, found to be in due
form, have agreed upon and concluded the follow-
ing articles :
Article 1. It is agreed, that the lines drawn be-
tween the points designated by the letters A. B. C.
D. E. F. G. H. I. K. on the chart annexed to the
Present Convention, and signed by the respective
lenipotentiaries, shall be acknowledged by the
high contracting parties as defining the limits be-
tween which and the French shore the oyster
fishery shall be reserved exclusively to French sub-
jects ; and these lines are as follow, that is to say—
The first line runs from the point A, three miles
from low water-mark (Point Meinga bearing south),
to the point B, of which the landmarks are Agon-
towrr, or; which the clump of trees upon Mount
Huchon, and the summit of Gros Mont in a line
..vi,h the signal-post on Grand Isle.
The svcond line runs from the said point B, to-
wArjs Agon-tower and the clump of trees upon
.Mount Huchon, in the direction north 64 degrees
east, until, at the point C, it brings the windmill
of Lingreviile to hear due east.
The third line runs from point C due east towards
Lingrevflie windmill, until the Grand Huguenant
is hrou.!,}it to bear on the Etat Reck at point D.
The fourth line runs from point D northward,
and keepin; tine Grand Huguenant in one with the
Etat Kock, until it intersects at E, a line whose
lamlinarks are Agon-tower, on with Coutances Ca-
Ah,dral.

Thf! fifth line runs eastward from point E to
point F, where the steeple of Pirou is brought to
hear in a line with Senequet Rock.
'Eft! sixth line rung from point F due north to
point G, where the steeple of Blainville is brought
in a line with the Senequet Rock.
The seventh line runs from point G (in the di-
re it of P:rou Steeple) to point H, where the
lighthouse on Cape Carteret bears north 24 degrees
west.

( rile eighth lire tuns from point Hto point I,
eieraly tabieast of Port Bail ; point I having for
landoiarks the fort of Port Bail, in a line with the
ste,eple of Port Bail.
And, finally, the ninth line rune from point I to
the three gru:ii?s at point K, where Cape Carteret
bears east 10 degrees north, in a line with Berne-
! rilie Church.
'i, it is further agreed and understood, that all the
t►hearings specified in the present article are to be
taken according to the true meridian, and not ac-
cording to the magnetic meridian.
Art. 2. The oyster fishery within three miles
of the island of Jersey, calculated from low
I water-mark, shall be reserved exclusively to British
subjects.
! Art. 3. The oyster fishery outside of the limits
within which that fishery is exclusively reserved to
the British and French subjects respectively, as
istipulated in the preceding articles, shall be com-
mon to the subjects of both countries.
Art. 4. Between sunset and the ensuing sunrise
the subjects of both countries respectively shall be
prohibited from dredging for oysters between the
' coast of Jersey and the coast of France, from Cape
It Carteret to Point iNleinga.
' Art. 5. Inasmuch as the law of France requires
I that all French fishing boats shall be marked and
I numbered, it is hereby agreed that all British fishing-
boats dredging for oysters between Jersey and the
!I coast of Fiance shall also be marked and numbered.
Art. 6. All British boats employed in the said
oyster fishery shall be registered at the office of the
inspector of fisheries in the island of Jersey ; and
the entry of each boat on the register shall state
the number, description, and tonnage of such boat,
and also the name of its owner. This entry must
be repeated every year, on or before the commence-
ment of the fishing season.
Art. 7. The right of shelter in the Islands of
Chaussey shall be granted to English fishermen on
account of damage or of evident bad weather.
Art 8. 'Whenever the fishing boats of either of
the two nations shall be carried within the limits
established for the fishery of the other country, by
contrary winds, by strong tides, or by any other
cause independent of the will of the master and
crew ; or whenever they shall have passed within
those limits in working back to regain their fishing
ground, the masters shall be bound immediately to
hoist a blue flag of two feet long and three feet
broad, and to keep that flag at the mast-head, so
long as they shall remain within the said limits.
The cruisers of each nation shall exercise their
judgment as to the causes of such tresspassings ; and
1,. when they shall be satisfied that the said fishing
boats have neither dredged nor fished within the
liAitseabove mentioned, the aforesaid cruisers shall
!!I'a'‘.le..,tain either the boats or the crews, nor use any
i'fc.3.4lres of severity towards the latter.
Art. 9. The subjects of her Britannic Majesty
Bhallenjoy the exclusive right of fishery within the
Idistance of three miles from low-water mark, along
the whole extent of the coasts of the British
) islands; and the subjects of the King of the French
shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery
within the distance of three miles from low-waster
mark, along the whole extent of the coasts of
France ; it being understood, that upon th at part
of the coast of France which lies between Cape
Carteret and Point Meinga French subjects shall
enjoy the exclusive right of all kinds of fishery
within the limits assigned in Article 1 of this *Con-
vention for the French oyster fishery.
It is equally agreed, that the distance of three
miles fixed as the general limit for the exclusive
right of fishery upon the coast of the two countries
shall, with respect to bays, the mouths of which do
not exceed ten miles in width, be measured from a
straight line drawn from headland to headland,
Art. 10. It is a,recd and understood, that the
miles tnenthetied in the preeeut Convention are geo-
graphical milts, whereof sixty make a degrett of
latitude.
Art. 11. Wi;11 a view to prevent the co/lisioeis
which now froth time to time take place on the seas
lying between the coasts of Great Britain and of
Prance, betw,...en the trawlers and the line and long-
et fishers of the two countries, the high contra •ct-
ing perties agree. to appoint, within two triorhths
after tne of the ratifisations of the pr!'3"
sent Cwiventoti*, a Coin fission consisting ,of
equal number of individuals each nation, wbo
shall prepare a set of regulations for the
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