Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1873

No. 179.
Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Fish.

Washington, January 30, 1873. (Received January 31.)

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith copy of an act passed by the legislature of Prince Edward’s Island on the 29th of June last, relating to the treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871.

I have, &c.,

EDW’D THORNTON.

Cap. II.

AN ACT relating to the treaty of Washington, 1871, passed June 29, 1872.

Whereas, by article thirty-three of the treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, signed at the city of Washington, on the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, it is provided that articles eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, relating to the fisheries, 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 that, such assent having been given, the said articles shall remain in force for the term of years mentioned in the said article thirty-three; and whereas it is expedient that the laws required to carry the said treaty into effect as respects Prince Edward’s Island should be passed by the legislature thereof:

1. Be it therefore enacted by the lieutenant-governor, council, and assembly: The act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fourteen, intituled “An act relating to the fisheries, and for the prevention of illicit trade in Prince Edward’s Island and the coasts and harbors thereof,” shall be and is hereby suspended as respects vessels and inhabitants of the United States of America engaged in taking fish of every or any kind, except shell-fish, on the sea-coasts and shores, and in the bays, harbors, and creeks of Prince Edward’s Island; as shall, also, all acts, laws, or regulations (if any) over which the legislature of the said Island has control which would in any wise prevent or impede the full effect of the said article eighteen.

2. Fish-oil and fish of all kinds, except fish of the inland lakes and of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in oil, being the produce of the fisheries of the United States, shall be admitted into Prince Edward’s Island free of duty.

3. The foregoing sections of this act shall come into force upon, from, and after a day to be appointed for that purpose by a proclamation based upon an order of the lieutenant-governor in council, and shall remain in force during the term of years mentioned in article thirty-three of the said treaty.