PROCLAMATION S. 843 M ¢ expiration of two yeers after either of the High Contracting Parties ¢¢ 4 shall have gwen notxce to the other of its wish to terminate the same · M} each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give sued M ¢notie}e to tngothenlnt the end of the said period of ten years, or at
- * any ime a. rwer z ·
"And whereas, in accordance with the stipulations of the above recited “Art1cle, an Act was passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain “ in the 35th and 36th years of the reign of Queen Victoria, intituled ‘An ·· *Aet to carry into effect 2m Treaty between Her Majesty and the United “ ‘ States of America :’ 6‘And whereas an Actwvas passed by the Senate and House of Com- “ mens of Canada in the fifth session of the First Parliament, held in the
- ‘ thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty’s reign, and assented to in Her M:1jesty’s
“ name, by the Governor General, 0n· the fourteenth day of June, 1872, “ intituled ‘An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871 :’ _ “And whereas an Act was passed by the Legislature of Prince Edwards “IsIand and assented to by the Lieutenant·Govern0r of that Colony on “`the 29th dey of June, 1872, intituled. ‘An Act relating to the Treaty of “ ‘ Washington, 1871: ’ "And whereas an Act was passed by the Senate and House of Bepre— “ sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, “ and approved on the first day of March, 1873, by the President of the " United States, intituled ‘An Act to curry into eifect; the provisions of " * the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the “ ‘ city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and
- ‘ ‘ seventy-one, relating to tisheries :’
"The undersigned, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United “ States, and the Right Honourable Sir Edward Thornton, one of Her “ Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Commander of the “ Most: Honourable Order of the Beth, Her Britannic Majesty’s Envoy “ Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiery to the United States of “ America, duly authorized for this purpose by their; respective Govern- " ments, having met together at Washington, and having found that the
- ‘ laws required to carry the Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article
“ XXX of the Treaty aforesaid into operation,··ha.ve been passed by the “ Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada " and by the Legislature of Prince Edwm·d’a Island on the one part, and “ by the Uongresmof the United States on the other, hereby declare uhm; " Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX of the ’JQreaty " between Her Britannia Majesty and the United States of America of ‘* the 8th of May, 1871, will take enect on the First da•.y_0f July next. ‘* In witness whereof the undersigned have signed thm Protocol, and “ have hereunto affixed their seals. » " Done in duplicate at Washixégtonhtbis delyiegtgldeviyoeit J1n}1§i£873. sm.;;.. _ ngne . {s1¤.¤...;_éSigned) . ¢*EDWD. THORNTON? Now, therefore, I, Umzssns S. GBAM, President of the United States Evidgncg ,0,,.,md of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare thm; I have of pwa»§_¤ ni lnws received satisfactory `evidence that the Imperial 1‘q.r11e.mentz of Great _';<A,§&¤5’ M Y mm Britain . the Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Edwards Island, have passed laws on their pant to gtve full effect to the provisions of the said Treaty as contained in Articles Eighteenth to Txvcnty-fifth, inclusive, and Article Thutxeth of said Treaty. ` In testimony wherwf I have hereunto eet my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ Done at the city of Washington this fnrst day of July, in the year of _ our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of Amemou the ninety-sevent;h. _ U S GRANT By the President: . . Hnmmnron Fxsn, Secretary of State.
