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Then the case was given to Mr. Joshua Bates, an American financier connected with the house of Baring Brothers in London, who allowed to the owners of the Washington the sum of $3, 000 damages, on the ground ''that the Bay of Fundy is not a British bay, nor a bay within the meaning of the word as used in the treaties of 1783 and 1818. " 1 On the fourth of August, 1844, the American schooner Argus was seized while fishing off the coast of Cape Breton at a distance of twenty-eight miles from shor...e. The same umpire, Mr. Bates, found no case of violation of the treaty, and awarded to the owners of the Argus the sum of $2, 000 for the loss of their vessel and its stores. The "headland" rule as applied to the Bay of Fundy was relaxed by the British Government in 1845. As early as 1847 England proposed a reciprocity treaty governing the fisheries of the two countries, but no agree- ment was reached by the two governments and the rela- tions' between the two became more and more critical. When the excitement had reached a high pitch and war was talked of, the British Government, in 1854, sent Lord Elgin to Washington for a conference with Mr.
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