. A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war . and formally opened a conference, which closed onthe twentieth of October with the signing of the Conventionof 1818. Power had been given to the American plenipotentiariesto agree to an article stripping the inhabitants of the UnitedStates of the liberty to take, cure, and dry fish within Britishjurisdiction generally, provided that liberty was secured tothem forever along the south coast of Newfoundland fromthe Eameau Islands to Cape Kay, and along the coast of Lab-rador from Mount Joli through the Straits
. A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war . and formally opened a conference, which closed onthe twentieth of October with the signing of the Conventionof 1818. Power had been given to the American plenipotentiariesto agree to an article stripping the inhabitants of the UnitedStates of the liberty to take, cure, and dry fish within Britishjurisdiction generally, provided that liberty was secured tothem forever along the south coast of Newfoundland fromthe Eameau Islands to Cape Kay, and along the coast of Lab-rador from Mount Joli through the Straits of Belle Isle andnorthward indefinitely. But they did more than was expectedof them, and by the first article of the convention four thingswere agreed upon: In the first place, it was provided thatinhabitants of the United States might forever catch fish onthe shores of the Magdalen Islands, on the coast of New-foundland from the Eameau Islands to Cape Kay, and fromCape Bay to the Quirpon Islands, and on the shores of Labra-dor from Mount Joli eastward through the Straits of Belle. 1818. THE CONVENTION OP 1818. 469 Isle and northward indefinitely. In the second place, it wasprovided that American fishermen might forever dry and curefish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, or creeks of New-foundland from Eameau Islands to Cape Kay, and of Labradorfrom Mount Joli eastward and northward indefinitely. In thethird place, it was agreed that, in consideration of this liberty,the United States renounced forever the claim of its inhab-itants to take, dry, or cure fish within three miles of any otherof the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of his Britannic Maj-estys possessions in North America, but that they might en-ter any of these bays, creeks, or harbors for the purpose ofseeking shelter, mending damages, buying wood, or obtainingwater, and for no other purposes whatsoever. The instructions of the American plenipotentiaries, again,bade them secure a northern boundary for the Unite
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