Done in duplicate at Washington, this 28th day of May, 1874.
[SEAL.] HAMILTON FISH.
[SEAL.] EDWD. THORNTON.
Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the premises, do hereby declare that I have received satisfactory evidence that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and the legislature of Newfoundland have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the provisions of the said treaty as contained in articles eighteenth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, and article thirtieth of said treaty.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of May, A.D. 1874, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-eighth.
[SEAL.]
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.