PROTOCOLS OF THE SEVERAL SES- 

 SIONS OF THE TRIBUNAL. 



PEOTOCOL I.i 



MEETING OF FEBRUARY 23, 1893. 



The Tribunal assembled at Paris, at the French Ministry for Foreign 

 Affairs. 



The arbitrators present were: 



The Honorable John M. Harlan, Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States, one of the arbitrators named by the United States; 



His Excellency Baron Alphouse de Courcel, French Senator, the 

 arbitrator named by France; 



The Eight Honorable Lord Hannen, Lord of Appeal, one of the arbi- 

 trators named by Great Britain; 



Who, having assured themselves that their respective powers were 

 in good and valid form. 



Baron de Courcel was invited by his colleagues to take the chair as 

 liresident for the present meeting. 



There were present at the meeting: 



Mr. WiHiam Williams, special agent and associate counsel for the 

 United States; the Hon. Charles H. Tupper, as agent of Her Britannic 

 Majesty. 



Messrs. Williams and Tupper laid before the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 the commissions empowering them to act before the Tribunal. 



There were also present at the meeting as counsel for ller Britannic 

 Majesty's Government : 



Sir Charles Eussell, Q. C, M. P., ller Britannic Majesty's Attorney- 

 General; 



Sir Eichard Webster, Q. C, M. P., 



And Mr. Christopher Eobinson, Q. C. 



The president invited Mr. Henri Feer, formerly a consul general of 

 France, to draw up the protocol of this meeting, with the assistance of 

 Messrs. Williams and Tupper. 



Mr. Williams, acting for the Government of the United States, asked 

 tl)at tlic Trilmnal adjourn till the -!3d of March. 



1 The origiual text of the Protocols is in Frencli. 



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