Article 13. The Island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent
islands, shall from this time forward belong of right wholly to Great
Britain. . . . Moreover, it shall not be lawful for the subjects of France
to fortify any place in the said Island of Newfoundland, or to erect any
buildings there, besides stages made of boards, and huts necessary and
usual for drying of fish, or to resort to the said island beyond the time
necessary for fishing and drying of fish. But it shall be allowed to the
subjects of France to catch fish, and to dry them on land, in that part
only, and in no other besides that, of the said island of Newfoundland,
which stretches from the place called Cape Bonavista to the northern
point of the said island, and from thence, running down the western
side, reaches as far as the place called Point Riche.

Article 6. The King of Great Britain cedes the islands of St. Pierre
and Miquelon in full right to his most Christian Majesty, to serve as a
shelter to the French fishermen; and his said most Christian Majesty
engages not to fortify the said islands, to erect no buildings upon them,
but merely for the convenience of the fishery; and to keep upon them a
guard of fifty men only for the police.

Article 5. His Majesty the most Christian King, in order to prevent
the quarrels which have hitherto arisen between the two nations of
England and France consents to renounce the right of fishing, which
belongs to him in virtue of the aforesaid article of the treaty of Utrecht,
from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, situated on the eastern coast of
Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north latitude; and his Majesty the King
of Great Britain consents, on his part, that the fishery assigned to the
subjects of his most Christian Majesty, beginning at the said Cape St.
John, passing to the north, and descending by the western coast of the
island of Newfoundland, shall extend to the place called Cape Ray,
situated in forty-seven degrees fifty minutes latitude.

. . . "in order that the fishermen of the two nations may not give cause
for daily quarrels, his Britannic Majesty will take most positive measures
for preventing his subjects from interrupting in any manner, by their
competition, the fishery of the French, during the temporary exercise of
it which is granted to them upon the coasts of the island of Newfound-
land; but he will, for this purpose, cause the fixed settlements which shall

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