The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-22
WILL IT BE SATISFACTORY TO
NEW ENGLAND?
Fishermen Under Stress of Weather May
Unload, Tranship or Sell Fish Sub
ject to the Customs Laws.

treaty:
Article l. The high contracting parties
iagree to appoint mixed com mission to
delimit in the manner provided in this
treaty, the British waters, and bays,
creeks and harbors of the coasts of Can
ada and Newfoundland, as to which
the United States, by Article /, of the
convention of October 90, 1918, between
the United States and Great Britain, re-
nounced forever any liberty to take, dry
or cure fish.
Art. 2. The commission shall consist
Of two commissioners to be nared by
her Britannia Majesty, and of two COM
missioners to be named by the President
of the United States, without delay, af-
ter the exchange of the ratification of
this treaty. The commissioners shall
meet and complete the delimitation as
soon as possible thereafter. In case of
death, absence, or incapacity of any
commissioner, or in the event of any
commissioner emitting or ceasing to act
as such, the President of the United
States or her Britannia Majesty, respec-
lively, shall forthwith name another per-
son to act as commissioner instead of the
commissioner originally named.
Art. 3. The delimitation referred to i'm
Article of this treaty shall be marked
upon the British admiralty charts by
series of lines regularly numbered and
duly described. The charts SO marked
shall, on the termination of the work of
the commissioners, be signed by the COM
missioners in quadruplicate; one copy
whereof shall be delivered to the Secre-
tary of State of the United States and
three copies to her Majesty's Govern
ment. The delimitation shall be made
in the following manner, and shall be
accepted by both high contracting parties
as applicable for all purposes under
Article l of the convention of October
20, 1918, between the United States and
Great Britain. The three marine miles
mentioned in Article l of the conven-
ton of October 90, 1918, shall be meas
ured seaward from low water mark, but
at every bay, creek, or harbor, not other
wise specially provided for in this treaty,
such three marine miles shall be meas
ured seaward from a straight line drawn
across the bay, creek, or harbor, in the
part nearest to the entrance at the first
point where the width does not exceed
ten marine miles.
Art. 4. At or near the follow ing bays
the limit of exclusion under Article of
the convention of October 20, 1918, at
points more than three marine miles
from low water marks shall be estab-
lished by the following lines, namely, at
Bale des Chaleurs, line from the light
at Birch Point on Miscou Island to Mac
querean Point light; at the Bay of Mi
ramichi, a line from the light at Point
Escaminac to the light on the eastern
point of Tabisintac Gully; at Egmont
Bay, Prince Edward Island, a line from
the light at Cape Egmont to the light at
West Point, and off st. AIMS Bay, Pro-
vince of Nova Scotia, line from Cape
Smoke to the light at Point Aconi, at
Fortune Bay, in Newfoundland, a line
from Cornaigre Head to the light on the
thence to Fortune Head; at Sir Charles
Hamilton Sound, line from the south
east point of Cape Fogo to
White Island, thence to the
north end of Peckford Island, and from
the south end of Peckford Island to the
east headland of Ragged Harbor. At or
near the following bays the limits of ex
clusion shall be three marine miles sea-
ward from the following lines, namely,
at or near harrington Bay, Nova Scotia,
line from the light on Stoddard Island
to the limit on South Point Cape Sable,
thence to the light at BaccaIo Point; at
Chedabucto and st. Peters Bays, a line
from Cranberry Island light to Green
Island light, thence to Point Rouge; at
Mira Bay, a line f.om the light on the
east point of Scutari Island to the north
easterly point of Cape Morien, and at
Placentia Bay, in Newfoundland, a line
| from Latino point, on the eastern main
| land shore. to the most southerlv point
| of Red Island, thence by the most south
/ erly point of Merasheen Island to the
mainland. Long Island and Breyer Is
lland, at st. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia,
IAall, for the purpose of delimitation,
, V taken as the coast of such bay.
| art. 3. Nothing in this treaty shall be
cAstrued to include within common
wsters any such interior portions of any
, baA creeks, or harbors as can not be
, reashed from the sea without passing
wltf& the three marine miles mentioned
IN Az Gle /. of the Convention of October
90. u
AruS The Commissioners shall, from
tlihe Uoime, report to each of the high
, contraeHng parties such lines as they
may hah agreed upon, numbered, de-
scrioed' Nd marked as herein provided,
with qua&upled charts thereof, which
hnes SO re1prted shall forthwith, from
Tune 10 Tue, be simultaneously pro-
CLAIMED bythe high contracting parties,
and be bindo after two months from
such proclarAtion.
Art' :. Rnydisagreement of the COM
missloners shsA forthwith be referred to
an umpire selsted by the Secretary of
State OF the Ursed States. and her Brit
annie Majesty, q Washington. and his
decision shall behal.
Art. s. Each OF the high contracting
: parties shall pay IL own commissioners
and officers. AID her expenses jointly
incurred in conneds ION with the per-
, formance of the wd including com