. ' of any Part of the said Coasts in their Occupancy for the same Purpose. 'It is understood that the above-mentioned Liberty applies solely to the Sea Fishery, and that Salmon and 'Shad Fisheries, and all Fisheries in Rivers and Mouths of 'Rivers, are hereby reserved exclusively for Fishermen of the United States. 'ARTICLE III-It is agreed that the Articles enumerated in the Schedule hereunto annexed, being the Growth and Produce of the aforesaid British Colonies, or of the United 'States, shall be admitted into each Country respectively 'free of Duty: 'Schedule. 'Grain, Flour, and Bread-stuffs of all Kinds. "Fresh, smoked, and salted Meats. 'Cotton Wool, Seeds, and Vegetables. Undried Fruits, dried Fruits. 'Fish of all Kinds. Products of Fish and of all other Creatures living in the Water. 'Poultry. • Eggs. Hides, Furs, Skins, or Tails undressed. 'Stone or Marble in its crude or unwrought State. 'Slate. 'Butter, Cheese, Tallow. Lard, Horns, Manures. 'Ores of Metals of all Kinds. 'Coal. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Ashes. Timber and Lumber of all Kinds, round, hewed, and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or in Part. 'Firewood. Plants, Shrubs, and Trees. ARTICLE IV. It is agreed that the Citizens and In'habitants of the United States shall have, the Right to 'navigate the River St. Lawrence, and the Canals in Canada, ' used as the Means of communicating between the Great 'Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean with their Vessels, Boats, ' and Crafts, as fully and freely as the Subjects of Her • Britannic 18 VICT. 'Britannic Majesty, subject only to the same Tolls and ' other Assessments as now are or may hereafter be exacted ' of Her Majesty's said Subjects; it being understood, however, that the British Government retains the Right of suspending this Privilege, on giving due Notice thereof to the Government of the United States. It is further agreed, that if at any Time the British 'Government should exercise the said reserved Right, the Government of the United States shall have the Right of suspending, if it think fit, the Operation of Article III. of the present Treaty, in so far as the Province of Canada is 'affected thereby, for so long as the Suspension of the free Navigation of the River St. Lawrence or the Canals may • continue. It is further agreed, that British Subjects shall have the Right freely to navigate Lake Michigan, with their Vessels, 'Boats, and Crafts, so long as the Privilege of navigating 'the River St. Lawrence, secured to American Citizens by the above Clause of the present Article, shall continue; and the Government of the United States further engages to urge upon the State Governments to secure to the Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty the Use of the several State Canals on Terms of Equality with the Inhabitants of the United States. 6 And it is further agreed, that no Export Duty or other Duty shall be levied on Lumber or Timber of any Kind cut on that Portion of the American Territory in the State of Maine watered by the River St. John and its Tributaries, and floated down that River to the Sea, when the same is shipped to the United States from the Province of New Brunswick. · ARTICLE V.—The present Treaty shall take effect as soon as the Laws required to carry it into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and by the Provincial Parliaments of those of the British North American Colonies which are affected by this Treaty on the one Hand, and by the Congress of the • United States on the other. Such Assent having been given, the Treaty shall remain in force for Ten Years from the Date at which it may come into operation, and further ' until the Expiration of Twelve Months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall give Notice to the other of its Wish to terminate the same; each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such Notice to the other at the End of the said Term of Ten Years, or at any Time afterwards. It is clearly understood, however, that this Stipulation is not intended to affect the Reservation made by Article IV. of the present Treaty with regard to the Right of temporarily suspending the Operation of Articles III. and IV. thereof. 'ARTICLE 6 6 6 ARTICLE VI.-And it is hereby further agreed, that the Provisions and Stipulations of the foregoing Articles shall extend to the Island of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable to that Colony. But if the Imperial Parliament, the Provincial Parliament of Newfoundland, or the Congress ' of the United States, shall not embrace, in their Laws ' enacted for carrying this Treaty into effect, the Colony of Newfoundland, then this Article shall be of no Effect; ' but the Omission to make Provision by Law to give it Effect, by either of the Legislative Bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair the remaining Articles of this · Treaty. 6 And whereas the said Treaty was ratified between Her said 'Majesty and the United States, and such Ratification was exchanged on the Ninth Day of September One thousand eight 'hundred and fifty-four: And whereas in pursuance of the said ' Treaty the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled have passed an 'entitled "An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between the 'United States and Great Britain," signed on the Fifth Day of 'June One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, which Act was approved on the Fifth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by which Act it is among other things ' provided, that whenever the President of the United States 'shall receive satisfactory Evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, and the Provincial Parliaments of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island have passed Laws on their Part to give full Effect to the Provisions of the said Treaty, the said President is thereby authorized to issue his Proclamation declaring that he has such Evidence, and thereupon the Provisions of the said Treaty shall go into effect, and be observed on the Part of the United States: And whereas the Legislatures of the Colonies aforesaid have respectively passed Laws to carry the said Treaty into operation namely, and an Act passed by the Legislature of Canada, intituled "An Act for giving Effect on the Part of this Province to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America ;" and an Act passed by the Legislature of Nova Scotia, intituled "An Act for giving Effect on the Part of the Province of Nova Scotia to a certain Treaty between 'Her Majesty and the United States of America ;" an an Act 'passed by the Legislature of New Brunswick, intituled " An Act for giving Effect on the Part of the Province of New 'Brunswick to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the 'United States of America ;" and an Act passed by the Legis'lature of Prince Edward Island, intituled "An Act to authorize 'Free Trade with the United States of America under a Treaty 'between Great Britain and the United States of America:" 'And whereas it is expedient that effectual Provision should 'be made by Parliament for carrying into operation the said Treaty: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 6 Majesty, Acts at variance with the said Treaty suspended. When Act to come into operation. Provision for the Treaty to 18 VICT. Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. All Acts of Parliament and Laws which operate to prevent the Provisions of the said Treaty from taking full Effect shall, so far as they so operate, be suspended and of no Effect during the Continuance of the said Treaty. II. This Act shall come into operation in each of the said Colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island as soon as the same shall have been received and proclaimed by the Officer administering the Government of such Colony. III. Whenever the necessary Laws shall have been passed by the Legislature of Newfoundland, and approved by Her Newfoundland. Majesty, for giving Effect to the Provisions and Stipulations of the said Treaty as it respects that Colony, it shall be lawful for the Officer administering the Government of Newfoundland by his Proclamation to declare that, after Time fixed in such Proclamation for that Purpose, the Provisions and Stipulation mentioned or referred to in the Sixth Article of the said Treaty shall extend to the said Island of Newfoundland so far as they are applicable to that Colony, and thereupon from the Time so fixed the said Provisions and Stipulations shall be so extended and have full Effect accordingly, any Act of Parliament, Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 37. WE 6 6 CAP. IV. An Act to amend the Act for limiting the Time of Service in the Army. [27th February 1855.] VHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-seven, "for limiting the Time of Service in the Army," it was enacted, that no Person should be enlisted to serve Her Majesty, or in the Forces of the East India Company, as a Soldier for a longer Term than Ten Years in the Infantry or Twelve Years in the Cavalry or Artillery, or other Ordnance Corps, to be reckoned from the Day on which the Recruit should have been attested, if he should have stated himself to be then of the Age of Eighteen Years, or if not, then from the Day on which he would complete the Age of Eighteen Years, to be reckoned according to the Age stated in his Attestation: And it was thereby also enacted, that any Soldier at any Time during the last Six Months of the Term ⚫ of limited Service for which he should have been first engaged, or after the Completion of such Term, might, if approved by his Commanding Officer or other competent inilitary Authority as a fit Person to continue in Her Majesty's Service or in 'the the Service of the East India Company as a Soldier, be re- or other Ordnance Corps; and that any Soldier who should be ordered on Foreign Service, and who was within Three Years of the Expiration of his First Engagement, should be at Liberty, with the Approbation of his Commanding Officer, to re-engage before he embarked for such Foreign Service for such Period as should complete a total Service of Twenty- ⚫one Years in the Infantry or Twenty-four Years in the Cavalry holden in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, 12 & 13 Vict. Chapter Seventy-three, "to limit the Enlistment in the Ar- c. 73. tillery and other Ordnance Corps," it was enacted, that during the last Six Months of the Term of limited Service for which a Soldier should have first engaged to serve in the Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, or after the Completion of such Term, he might, if approved by his Commanding Officer or other competent military Authority as a fit Person to continue in Her Majesty's Service as a Soldier, be re-engaged to serve for the further Term of Nine Years: And whereas by Reason • of Directions contained in Schedules to the said first-recited 'tively: And whereas it is expedient that Her Majesty should 'be enabled to permit Enlistment for such lesser Terms, and to authorize Soldiers to re-engage for any Terms within the Limits of Service prescribed by the said Acts:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho- I. For Three Years after the passing of this Act any Person Lesser Terms may be enlisted to serve Her Majesty, or in the Forces of the for Enlistment East India Company, as a Soldier, for any such Terms not ment of Soldiers exceeding Ten Years in the Infantry or Twelve Years in the may be pre- Cavalry or Artillery, or other Ordnance Corps (to be reckoned scribed by Her as provided in the said first-mentioned Act), as may be Council. authorized by any Order or Orders of Her Majesty in Council in this Behalf; and any Soldier may, subject to such Approbation as in the said Acts mentioned, re-engage for such Term as may by such Order or Orders in Council be authorized; provided the Term for which he is so engaged, with the Term of his Service under his First Enlistment, do not exceed the Period of Twenty-one Years in the Infantry or Artillery, or other Ordnance Corps, or Twenty four Years in the Cavalry; and the Forms of Questions on Enlistment in Schedule A. to the be |