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36 ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, Q. C. M. P. 



Sir Charles Eussell. — I do not see that that helps my learned 

 friend at all. If they have done that, you see how fatal that is to the 

 argument of my friend, Mr. Carter; because we have got beyond the 

 days when the skin was necessary to be girt about the loins. We have 

 got beyond the days when the food of the seal was needed to satisfy 

 the primary wants of the natives. 



The President. — Could you tell us, Sir Charles, at what time that 

 lease between Russia and the Hudson's Bay Company was made? 



Sir Charles Russell. — Certainly, Sir. I shall be able to give you 

 satisfactory information about it. I have not got it at this moment. 



The President. — We should be pleased if you would give us that 

 information. 



Sir Charles Russell. — Certainly, Sir. 



The President. — We have decided to sit to-morrow. Although it 

 is Ascension day, the earnestness of our task prevents our making a 

 holiday of it, and we will sit at the usual hour. 



The Tribunal accordingly adjourned until Thursday, May 11, 1893, 

 at 11.30 o'clock A. M. 



