Documents diplomatiques: Affaires de Terre-Neuve [13 mars 1713-12 mars 1891]

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Imprimerie nationale, 1891 - Fisheries - 377 pages
 

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Page 6 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by...
Page 14 - Government of any foreign country, and are in force in that country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to direct that the...
Page 93 - Words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular.
Page 13 - ... ont résolu de conclure une convention à cet effet, et ont nommé pour leurs plénipotentiaires, savoir : Son Altesse Royale le grand-duc de Bade, le sieur, etc. Sa Majesté le roi...
Page 241 - To this end, and in order that the fishermen of the two nations may not give cause for daily quarrels, his Britannic Majesty will take the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from interrupting, in any manner, by their competition, the fishery of the French, during the temporary exercise of it which is granted to them upon the coasts of the island of Newfoundland ; and he will for this purpose cause the fixed settlements, which shall be formed there, to be removed.
Page 116 - ... sureties, conditioned personally to try such appeal, and to abide the judgment of the court thereon, and to pay such costs as may be awarded by the court, or...
Page 7 - Westminster, one moiety of such penalty to belong to His Majesty, his heirs, and successors, and the other moiety to such person or persons as shall sue or prosecute for the same.
Page 6 - The thirteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, and the method of carrying on the fishery, which has at all times been acknowledged, shall be the plan upon which the fishery shall be carried on there...
Page 252 - ... of the fisheries on the banks of Newfoundland and in the gulf of St. Lawrence, as being frequented and enjoyed by the subjects of France.
Page 5 - But it shall be allowed to the subjects of France, to catch fish, and to dry them on land, in that part only, and in no other besides that, of the said island of Newfoundland, which stretches from the place called Cape Bonavista, to the northern point of the said island, and from thence running down by the western side, reaches as far as the place called Point Riche.

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