Article 5
"The subjects of France shall have the liberty of fishing and drying on a part of the coasts of the
island of Newfoundland, such as it is specified in the 13th article of the Treaty of Utrecht, which
article is renewed and confirmed by the present treaty (except what is related to the island of Cape
Breton as well as to the other islands and coasts in the mouth and in the gulph of St. Lawrence);
and his Britannic Majesty consents to leave the subjects of the most Christian King the liberty of
fishing in the gulph of St. Lawrence, on condition that the subjects of France do not exercise the
said fishery but at the distance of three leagues from all the coasts belonging to Great Britain, as
well those of the continent as those of the islands situated in the said gulph of St. Lawrence. And
as to what relates to the fishery on the coasts of the island of Cape Breton out of the said gulf,
the subjects of the most Christian King shall not be permitted to exercise the said fishery but at
the distance of fifteen leagues from the coast of Nova Scotia or Acadia and every where else out
of the said gulph, shall remain on the foot of former treaties."
Article 6
"His majesty the King of Great Britain cedes the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon in full right
to his most Christian Majesty, to serve as a shelter to the French fishermen; and his said most
Christian Majesty engages not to fortify the said islands, to erect no buildings upon them, but
merely for the convenience of the fishery; and to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for
the police."
Article 8:
"His Britannic Majesty, stipulating for himself and his allies, engages to restore to his most
Christian Majesty, within the term which shall be hereafter fixed , the colonies, fisheries,
factories and establishments of every kind which possessed by France on the 1st of January ,
1792, in the seas and on the continents of America, Africa and Asia, with the exception,
however, of the islands of Tobago and St. Lucie, and the isle of France and its dependencies,
especially Rodrigues and Les Schelles, which several colonies and possessions his most Christian
Majesty cedes in full right and sovereignty to his Britannic Majesty, and also the portion of ST.
Domingo ceded to France by the Treaty of Basle and which his most Christian Majesty restores
in full right and sovereignty to his Catholic Majesty."
Article 13:
"The French right of fishery upon the Great Bank of Newfoundland, upon the coasts of the island
of that name, and of the adjacent islands in the gulph of St. Lawrence, shall be replaced upon the
footing in which it stood in 1792.