his 15th day of May, A.D. 1874, and of
the Independence of the United States the ninety-eighth.

[SEAL.]

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the thirty-third article of a treaty concluded at Washington
on the 8th day of May, 1871, between the United States and Her Britannic
Majesty, it was provided that--

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 Edwards
Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on
the other.

And whereas it is provided by Article XXXII of the treaty aforesaid
that--

The provisions and stipulations of Articles XVIII to XXV of this
treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the colony of Newfoundland so far
as they are applicable. But if the Imperial Parliament, the legislature
of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States shall not embrace
the colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the
foregoing articles into effect, 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
any other articles of this treaty.

And whereas by the second section of an act entitled "An act to carry
into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and
Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the 8th day of May,
1871, relating to the fisheries," it is provided--

That whenever the colony of Newfoundland shall give its consent to the
application of the stipulations and provisions of the said articles
eighteenth to twenty-fifth of said treaty, inclusive, to that colony,
and the legislature thereof and the Imperial Parliament shall pass the
necessary laws for that purpose, the above-enumerated articles, being
the produce of the fisheries of the colony of Newfoundland, shall be
admitted into the United States free of duty from and after the date
of a proclamation by the President of the United States declaring that
he has satisfactory evidence that the said colony of Newfoundland has
consented, in a due and proper manner, to have the provisions o