Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-22

Full Text Of the Treaty Produced by Bay
ards "NesotatOrS,"
IndoIsed by Message from President
Cleveland. Accompanying its
/ Transmission to the
| Senate.
! WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.
/ Senate.
/ The Senate voted down the motion 10 adj.
4 journ over Till Monday, and, after an execu
/ tive session, at $50 adjourned.
( House.
I A bill was passed granting the +. Libby
! Post, G. A. r., permission to erect a sol.
dier's monument on the government land =,
Rockland, Me.
/ The House went into the committee of the
whole and agreed upon several bills, appro-
( priating money for public buildings. After
( the committee rose, the House took no final
action on the bills agreed TO during the ses-
! sion as committee of the whole, but at five
O'Clock adjourned till Thursday.
General Congressional News
| The following is the full text of Bayard's
/ Fisheries Treaty Whereas. differences
have arisen concerning the Interpretation o (
the article of the convention of October 20,
! 1918, between the United States of America,
| and her majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the two are mutually desirious of removing
/ all causes of misunderstanding in relation
thereto, and of promoting friendly inter
course and good neighborhood between the
| United States and the possessions of her
majesty in North America, the two powers
have resolved to conclude treaty 10 that
end and have named as their plenipotentiaries,
that is To say, the President of the United
States, Thos +. Baynrd, Secretary of State
VIM. l.. Putnam of Maine and Jas. A. An
gell of Michigan, Her Majesty, the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, NJ.
p. Hon. Sir Lionel Sackville West, X. G..
G., Her Britannia Majesv's Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States of America, Sir Chas. Tupper,
&. c. NJ, Minister of Finances of the Dom
inion of Canada who having communicated
To each other their respective full powers,
found in good and due form, have agreed
upon the following articles
Article l.. The high contracting parties
agree to appoint mixed commission TO de-
limit in the manner provided in this treaty
the British waters, bays, creeks and harbOrs,
of the coasts of Canada and of Newfound-
land as to which the United States, by arti-
Gle of the convention of Oct. 20, 1918. be-
tween the 'nited States and Great Britain,
renounced for ever any liberty to take, dry
or cure fish.
Article H. The commission shall consist
of two commissioners to he named by Her
Britannia Majesty, and of two commission
ers to be named by the President of the Uni
ted States, without delay, after the exchange
of satisfaction of this treaty The commits.
sion shall meet and complete the delimitation
as soon as possible thereafter. In case of
the death, absence or incapacity of any com
missioner, or in the event of any commits
sioner omitting or ceasng to act as such, the
! President of the United States or her Bri-
tannic Majesty, respectively, shall forthwith
name another person to act as the commits
sioner originally named.
Article III. The delimitation referred to
| in Article | of this treaty shall he marked
upon the British admiralty charts by Sc
ries of lines regularly numbered and the
duly described charts so marked, shall, on
the termination of the work of the COM
mission, be signed by the commission in
quadraplicate, one copy whereof will be de-
| iyered to the Secretary of State of the
| United States, and three copies to Her Maj
estv's government Delimitation shall be
| T,lI and shall ha
accepted by both of the high contracting
! Article of the convention of Oct. 20, 1918,
between the United States and Great Britain
/ The three marine miles mentioned in Article
| | of the convention of oct, 30, 1878, shall be
measured seward from low water mark, but
at every BAY, creek or harbor not otherwise
specially provided for in this treaty, such
three marine miles shall. be measured sea
ward from straight line drawn across the
bay, creek or harbor, in the part nearest the
entrance at the first point where the widtl
doesn't exceed ten marine miles.
| Article ". At or near the following bay;
the limits of exclusion under article of the
convention of Oct 20, 1918, at points more
than three marine miles from low wate
mark shall be established by the following
lines. namely At Baic Dis Chaneurs by a lin,
drawn from the light at Birch Point on Mis-
cou Island to Macquerean Point light; at tht
bay of Miramachi, by line from the light a
Point Escuminac to the light on the eastern
point of Tabisciatac Gullys; At Egmon
bay in Prince Edwards Island, by line from
the light at Cape Egmont to the light at tn
west point, and off Stones Bay in the Prov
ince of Nova Scotia by line from CapeSmok
to the light at Point Acon; at Fortune ba
NewF Foundland by line from Cornaigrellea
to the light on the southeastern.
end of Brunei Island, thence +
Fortune head at Sir Charles Hamilton sound
by a line from the southeast point of Cape Fo
to White Island; thence to the north end o
Peckford Island, and from the south end o
Peckford Island to the east headiand 0
Ragged harbor. At or near the following
bays the limits of exclusion to be three ma
rine miles seward from the following lines
namely At or near Darlington bay, n. S
bv line from the light on Stoddard to tn
! light on the south point of Cape Sable
thence to the light at Baracco' Point a
Chedebucto and St Peters bays, by lin
from Cranberry Island light to Green /,
! land light thence to Point Rouge at Mir
hay, by line from the light the ea'
point of Scatar Island to the northeastern
in Newfoundland by line from Latin
: Point on the eastern mainland shore to III
most southern point of Red IsiaNi; theme
by the most southerly point of Meashee
! Island to the mainland; Long Island an
Bryer Island at st. Mary's bay, y. s.. shal
; for the purpose of delimitation be taken Z
the coasts of such bays.
r Article V. Nothing in this treaty shall /
/ construed to include within common water
any such interior portions of any bay
8 creeks or harbers, as cannot be reached fro
! the sea without passing within three marir
e miles mentioned in Article / of the CONVEX
$ ton of Oct 20tb. lsls.
q Article VI. The commissioners shal
from time to time report to each other of Il
high contracting parties such lines ma
have been agreed on, numbered and d
scribed and marked as herein provided vii
quarduplicate charts thereof which lin
shall fourthwith from time to time be simu
taneously proclaimed by the high contractir
parties and binding after two months fro
V such proclamation.