2. 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 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.
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