Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-18
The Fishery and Reciprocity Treaty.

The New York Daily Times of Saturday
morning publishes the Canadian Fishery and
Reciprocity Treaty entire. With some slight
inaccuracies the previously reported conditions
of the proposed treaty from Quebec and Wash
ington, are found to have been correct.
Article / provides that the inhabitants of
the United States in addition to the rights Sc
cured by the Convention of 1918, shall have,
in common with the subjects of her Britannia
Majesty, the liberty to take Fish of every
kind except Shell-Fish on the sea coasts and
Shores and III the bays, harbors, and creeks
of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edwards Island. and of the several
islands thereunto adjacent, without being re-
stricted to any distance from the shore, with
permission to land upon the coasts and shores
Of those Colonies and the Islands thereof. and
upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose
OF drying their nets and curing their fish. 1t
is understood that the above mentioned liberty
applies solely to sea-kshing, and that salmon
and shad fisheries in rivers and the mouths of
rivers are hereby reserved exclusively for
British fishermen. Here follows a provision
for the appointment of a Commission for the
adjustment of any difficulties arising between
the fishermen of either country; the duties of
said Commission being very infinitely set
forth, and its decision being final and conclu-
sive in every case.
By Article 2 the United States concede to
British subjects precisely the same rights in
American waters North of the SO parallel of
North Lat, as are conceded in article to cit
liens of the United States Special reserva-
ton is made by the United States of the Sal
mon and Shad Fisheries, and all fisheries in
rivers and mouths of rivers.
Article specifies the products of the Brit
ish colonies or the United States which are to
be admitted into each country free of DUTY
1hey areas follows GRAIN, -four and bread
stutts OF all kinds, animals of all kinds, fresh,
smoked and sailed meats, cotton, WOOL seeds
and vegetables, undried fruits, dried fruits.
fish Of all kinds products of fish and all other
creatures living in the water, poultry, eggs,
hides furs, skins or tails undressed, stone or
marble in its crude or unwrought state, slate,
butter, cheese, tallow, lard, horns, manures,
ores, metals of all kinds, coal, pitch, tar, tlIr-
pentine, ashes, timber and lumber Of all kinds,
round, hewed and sawed, unmanufactured in
whole or in part, fre-wood, plants, shrubs
and trees, pelts, wool, fish oil, rice, broom
corn and bark, gypsum, ground or unground,
hewed or wrought or unwrought burr or
grindstones, dyestuffs, fax, hemp and tow
unmanuiactured, manufactured tobacco,
rags.
Article provides that inhabitants of the
United States shall have precisely the same
right to navigate the River st. Lewrence and
the Canadian canals as the subjects of Great
Britain have. The British Government, how
ever, reserve the right to suspend the privi-
le5e on giving due notice thereof, and in that
event the United States may suspend the OPP
Grafton of article 8 so far as the z rovince of
Canada is concerned The British have the
free right to navigate Lake Michigan, and to
the use of American canals, upon the terms
of equity with the inhabitants of the United
States, but those rights are contingent upon
the free navigation Of the St. Lawrence, &C.,
by Americans.
Article further provides that the British
shall exact no export duty on lumber cut
upon American territory and foated down the
river st. John and It's tributaries, provided the
same be shipped to the United States. The
treaty is to take effect as soon as approved of
by the British Parliament, the several Prov
inces, and the Congress of the United States,
to be effected within six months from June
9th, and to continue in force ten years, when
it may be abrogated by either party on giving
twelve months notice.
Article provides that the Island of New
foundland shall be included in the treaty with
the appreciation Of the Provincial and Imperi-
al Parliament, and Of Congress but the dis
sent of either party to inclusion shall not be
understood as impairing to any extent the
conditions OF the other articles Of the treaty.
The treaty was signed by Mr.. Marcy and
Lord Elgin, at Washington, on the 9th of June
last.