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FOREIGN RELATIONS.


"Protocol of a conference held at Washington on the twenty-eighth day
of May, one thousand
                            eight hundred and seventy-four.

  "Whereas it is provided by Article XXXII of the treaty between the
United States
of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and
Ireland, signed at Washington on the 8th of May, 1871, as follows:

                               "'ARTICLE XXXII.
  "'It is further agreed, that the provisions and stipulations of Articles
XVIII to XXV
of this treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the colony of Newfoundland, so
far as they are
applicable. But if the Imperial Parliament, the legislature of Newfoundland,
or the
Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the colony of Newfoundland
in their
laws enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, then this article
shall be of
no effect; but the omission to make provision by law to give it effect, by
either of the
legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other articles
of this
treaty ;-'
  "And whereas an act was passed by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, and approved on the first
day of
March, 1873, by the President of the United States, entitled 'An act to carry
into effect
the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain,
signed in the
city of Washington the eighth of May, 1871, relating to fisheries,' by which
act it is
provided:
  "'Section 2. That whenever the colony of Newfoundland shall give its
consent to
the application of the stipulations and provisions of the said articles eighteenth
to
twenty-fifth of said treaty, inclusive, to that colony, and the legislature
thereof and
the Imperial Parliament shall pass the necessary laws for that purpose, the
above-enu-
merated articles, being the produce of the fisheries of the colony of Newfoundland,
shall
be admitted into the United States free of duty from and after the date of
a proclama-
tion by the President of the United States, declaring that he has satisfactory
evidence
that the said colony of Newfoundland has consented, inna due and proper manner,
to
have the provisions of the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive,
of the said
treaty extended to it, and to allow the United States the full benefits of
all the-stipu-
lations therein contained, and shall be so admitted free of duty, so long
as the said arti-
cles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth, of said
treaty, shall
remain in force, according to the terms and conditions of article thirty-third
of said
treaty;'
  "And whereas an act was passed by the governor, legislative council,
and assembly
of Newfoundland, in legislative session convenedin the thirty-seventh year
of Her
Majesty's reign, and assented to by Her Majesty on the twelfth day of May,
1874, inti-
tuled '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 Thornton, 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
together 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 aforesaid,
into
operation, have been passed by the Congress of the United States on the one
part, and
by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada,
and by the
legislature of Prince Edward's Island and the legislature of Newfoundland
on the other,
hereby declare 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 seals.
  "Done in duplicate at Washington this twenty-eighth day of May, 1874.
  [L. S.]                                                   "H~AMILTON
FISH.
  [L.S. ]                                                   ' EDWD. THORNTON."

  Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States
of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare that I have
received satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great
Britain and the legislature of Newfoundland have passed laws on their
part to give full effect to the provisions of the said treaty, as contained