Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 182.
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard.

British Legation,
Washington, March 24. [Received March 25.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, in reply to mine of the 19th, informing me that, as full and formal public notification in the premises has already been given by the President’s proclamation of the 31st January, 1885, it has not been found necessary to give to United States fishermen any further notification that they are now precluded from fishing in British North American territorial waters. I have duly informed Her Majesty’s Government and the Government of the Dominion of this decision.

I have, &c.,

L. S. SACKVILLE WEST.