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Gentlemen, I trust that I represent your wishes in proposinj; to you 

 j to break up our present nieetinn', in order to eonvey our respects to the 

 President of the French Republic, together with an expression of our 

 gratitude for the hospitality which we are receiving- from Prance. 



On the proposal of the president, Mr. A. Imbert, a minister plenipo- 

 tentiary of France, was named secretary to the Tribunal of Arbitration. 

 Baron de Courcel then invited the English and American arbitrators 

 to name for their respective nationalities a secretary to be associated 

 with the secretary of the Tribunal. It was agreed that this appoint- 

 ment should be made at the next meeting. 



The Tribunal fixed the days and hours of its meetings. 



In conformity with the stipulations of the treaty of Washington of 

 the 29th of February, 1892, the agents of the (Jovernments of the 

 United States and Great Britain laid before the Tribunal the printed 

 arguments of their respective Governments. 



The agent of the United States having intimated that, owing to an 

 oversight in printing, there was an omission in the appendices of 

 authorities cited in the argument of the United States, he was author- 

 ized to present at a later date, as an appendix to the argument, a suj>- 

 plement containing the citations omitted, with the reserve of the right 

 on the part of the British •Government to present a reply to the cita- 

 tions should they deem it to be necessary. 



The agents of the respective Governments stated that they had 

 agreed to arrange for taking shorthand reports of the daily proceedings. 



It was announced that the proceedings were now public, and admis- 

 sion to the discussions would be upon the presentation of cards of 

 admission, to be issued by the secretary of the Tribunal. 



The Tribunal of Arbitration adjourned till the ith of April next. 



Done at Paris, the 23d of March, 1893, and signed : 



The President : ALPH. DE COUECEL. 

 The Agent for the United States: JOHN W. FOSTEK. 

 The A(jent for Great Britain: CHARLES H. TUPPER. 

 The Secretary : A. iMUEliT. 



Translation certified to be accurate : 

 A. Bailly-Blanchard, 



T-r ., I Co- Secretaries. 



H. CUNYNGHAME, 

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