THE HALIFAX AWARD.
The following was the note addressed to Lord Salisbury by the American Minister, Mr Welsh, on paying the amount of the award :—" Legation of the United States, London, Nov. 21.—My Lord,—l have been instructed by the President of the United States to tender to Her Majesty's Government the sum of $5,5C0,000 in gold coin, this being the sum named by the two concurring members of the Fisheries Commission (lately: Hitting at Halifax under authority imparted thereto by the Treaty of Washington) to be paid by the Government of the Dnited States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty. I am also, instructed by the President to say that such payment is made upon the ground that the Government of the United States desires to place the maintenance of good faith in treaties and the security and value of arbitration between nations: above all question in its relations with Her Britannic Majesty's Government as with all other Governments. Under this motive the Government of the United States decides to separate the question of withholding payment from the considerations touching the obligation ■of this payment which have been presented to Her Majesty's Government in cor- j respondence, aod which it reserves and insists upon. I am, besides, instructed by the President to say that the Government of the United States deems
it of the greatest importance to the common and friendly interests of the two Governments, in all fixture treatment of any question relative to the North American fisheries, that Her Britannic Majesty's Government .should be distinctly advised that the Government of the Jutted States cannot accept the result of tho Halifax Commission as furnishing any just measure of the value of a participation of our citizens in the in shore fisheries of the British provinces, and it protests against the actual payment now made being considered by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense an acquiescence in such measure, or as warranting any inference to that effect.—l have, Ac, John Wilsh."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3122, 19 February 1879, Page 2
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333THE HALIFAX AWARD. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3122, 19 February 1879, Page 2
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