PROCLAMATION, ETC.

                                No. 1.

    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

                       A PROCLAMATION.

  Whereas by the thirty-third article of a treaty concluded at Wash-
ington on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her
Britannic Majesty, it was provided that "1Articles XVIII to XXV, in
-
elusive, and Article XXX of this treaty, shall take effect as soon as the
laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by
the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada,
and by the legislature of Prince Edward's Island, on the one hand, and
by the Congress of the United States, on the other;"
  And whereas it is provided by Article XXXII of the treaty aforesaid
"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 fore-
going 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 by the second section of an act 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 8th day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," it is
pro-
vided ;
  " 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-enumerated 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 proclamation by the President of the United States declaring that
he has satisfactory evidence that the said colony of Newfoundland has
consented, in a 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 stipula-
tions therein contained, and shall be so admitted free of duty so long as
the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thir-
tieth of said treaty, shall remain in force, according to the terms and
conditions of article thirty-third of said treaty;;"
  And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her
Britannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
at Washington have recorded, in a protocol of a conference held by them
at the Department of State in Washington on the 28th day of May, 1874,
in the following language:
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