ated
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 of the said articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth,
inclusive, of the said treaty extended to it, and to allow the United
States the full benefits of all the stipulations therein contained,
and shall be so admitted free of duty so long as the said articles
eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of said
treaty shall remain in force according to the terms and conditions of
article thirty-third of said treaty;" and

Whereas an act was passed by the governor, legislative council, and
assembly of Newfoundland, in legislative session convened, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign, and assented to by Her
Majesty on the 12th day of May, 1874, intituled "An act to carry into
effect the provisions of the treaty of Washington as far as they relate
to this colony:"

The undersigned, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United
States, and the Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton, one of Her Majesty's
most honorable privy council, knight commander of the most honorable
Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America, duly
authorized for this purpose by their respective Governments, having met
together at Washington, and having found that the laws required to
carry the Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Articles XXX and XXXII
of the treaty aforesaid into operation have been passed by the Congress
of the United States on the one part, and by the Imperial Parliament of
Great Britain, by the parliament of Canada, and by the legislature of
Prince Edwards Island and the legislature of Newfoundland on the other,
hereby declare that Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX
of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic
Majesty shall take effect in accordance with Article XXXIII of said
treaty between the citizens of the United States of America and Her
Majesty's subjects in the colony of Newfoundland on the 1st day of
June next.

In witness whereof the undersigned have signed this protocol and have
hereunto affixed their seals.

Done in duplic