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842 PROCLAMATION S. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. _ _ Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the nametgsgigznth. By the President: J. C. Bnncnorvr Davis, Acting Secretary of State. _ No. 2. July 1, ,8.,,, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ri-minis. Whereas by the Thirty-third Article of a Treaty concluded at Wash- V°'- ¤Vi*»P· 863- ington on the 8th day of May,1871 between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, it wa provided that “Artic1es XVIII to XXV in- “ elusive, and Article XXX of this Treaty 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 ;” @73, dr- 213, Wl- And whereas by the first section of an Act entitled “An act to carry

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“ Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the-eighth day of May, •* eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the iisheries," it is provided *‘, that whenever the President of the United States shall receive M atisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the “ Parliament of Canada, and the Legislature of Prince Edward’s Island, “ have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of “ the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed at the “ city of Washington on the eighth day of May eighteen hundred and “ seventy-one, a contained in Articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclu- " sive, and Article thirtieth of said Treaty, he is hereby authorized to “ issue his proclamation declaring that he has such evidence ;” And whereas the Secretary of State of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington have recorded in a protocol a conference held by them at the Department of State in Washington, on the 7th day of June, 1873, in the following language: . ‘* Protocol of a conference held at Washington, on the seventh day of Jane, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. “ Whereas it is provided by Article XXXIII of the Treaty between “ Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and “ Ireland, and the United States of America, signed at Washington on “ the 8th of May, 1871, as follows : “ ‘ABTICLE XXXIII. •‘ ‘ The foregoing Articles, XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX " ‘ of this Treaty 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. Such assent having been given, the " ‘ said articles shall remain in force for the period of ten years from the "‘date at which they may come into operation, and further, until the