It is further agreed that for the like period goods, wares, or
merchandise arriving at any of the ports of Her Britannic Majesty's
possessions in North America, and destined for the United States, may
be entered at the proper custom-house and conveyed in transit, without
the payment of duties, through the said possessions, under such rules
and regulations and conditions for the protection of the revenue as the
governments of the said possessions may from time to time prescribe;
and, under like rules, regulations, and conditions, goods, wares, or
merchandise may be conveyed in transit, without payment of duties, from
the United States through the said possessions to other places in the
United States, or for export from ports in the said possessions.
In the year 1886 notice was received by the representatives of our
Government that our fishermen would no longer be allowed to ship their
fish in bond and free of duty through Canadian territory to this
country, and ever since that time such shipment has been denied.
The privilege of such shipment, which had been extended to our
fishermen, was a most important one, allowing them to spend the time
upon the fishing grounds which would otherwise be devoted to a voyage
home with their catch, and doubling their opportunities for profitably
prosecuting their vocation.
In forbidding the transit of the catch of our fishermen over their
territory in bond and free of duty the Canadian authorities deprived us
of the only facility dependent upon their concession and for which we
could supply no substitute.
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