Nineteenth Century: … Mr. Justice Pinsent, of Newfoundland examines at some length the history and nature of the French fishery claims in Newfoundland. Mr. Justice Pinsent says: —”There seems to be little or no difference of opinion upon the construction to be placed upon the treaties with regard to the issue just now particularly pending. A quotation from the “Standard” in commenting on a leader on a letter of mine perhaps gives voice to general pronouncement of the Press as fairly as any excerpt I can make. But we defy any fair-minded student to read the various provisions without being forced to the conclusion that the right was carefully deliberately limited. What, in short, all French fishermen were entitled to do was to fish for cod and for nothing else, and to erect only such buildings on shore as were necessary for drying cod.
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893