CONTENTS OF CASE. XI 



Question 7: Page. 



Commercial privileges 127 



British contention 127 



United States contention : 127 



The treaty coasts 127 



History of the question 128 



Early history 128 



Instructions of Lord Bathurst 129 



Arrangements of 1830 129 



Reciprocity treaty, 1854 130 



Licenses, 1866-1870 130 



Enforcement of treaty, 1870-71 131 



Lord Kimberley's views, 1871 131 



Treaty of 1871 132 



Halifax Commission, 1879. 132 



Canadian action, 1886 134 



United States Statutes, 1887 135 



Negotiations subsequent 1S5-141 



Canadian documents on subject '. 141 



Secretary Manning's report, 1887 141 



Report of Committee of United States House of Representatives. 141 



Report of Senate Foreign Relations 1887 and 1888 142 



United States contentions 145 



Argument of Great Britain 



Treaty of 1818 146 



Commercial facilities would alter character of treaty liberties 146 



No right apart from treaty 147 



United States contention in Halifax arbitration 147 



Commercial privileges can not be claimed as a right under inter- 

 national law 147 



Comity 148 



Fishing and trading vessels, distinction between 348 



Pomeroy's opinion 148 



Municipal law 149 



Conclusions 149 



