No. 205.
Mr. Hardinge to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, July 31, 1886. [Received August 2.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, drawing my attention to an alleged infraction of the stipulations of the treaty of October 20, 1818, by the Newfoundland authorities at Bonne Bay, in threatening the master of the American fishing vessel Thomas F. Bayard with seizure of his ship in case of his attempting to obtain fish for bait or for any other transaction in connection with fishing operations within three marine miles of that coast; also, to the case of the United States fishing schooner Mascot, at Port Amherst, Magdalen Islands.
I have, &c.,