Excerpt from Commercial Reciprocity Between the United States and the British North American Provinces; Memorandum of the British Plenipotentiaries; Full Text of the Old Reciprocity Treaty of 1854; Full Text of the Proposed New Treaty The undersigned, Joint Plenipotentiaries of Her Britannic Majesty, with full powers for the negotiation and conclu sion of a Treaty with the United States relative to Fisheries, Commerce and Navigation, deem it fitting that, at the out set of the negotiations with which they have been charged, they should submit for the consideration of the Secretary of State some suggestions in regard to the commercial relations between the United States and the Canadian Dominion, which may not be unworthy of attention. All the figures used in this memorandum are taken from the official documents of the United States Government, except when otherwise stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.