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curable James Bryce, O.M., on behalf of Great Britain, and by the 

 Secretary of State of the United States, Elihu Root, on behalf of the 

 United States. 

 Done at Washington on the 27th day of January, 1909. 



(L.S.) JAMES BRYCE. 



(L.S.) ELIHU ROOT. 



No. 2. 1909, June 2; Letter from the Hon. P. C. Knox to the Right 

 Hon. James Bryce, enclosing a list of Legislative and Executive 

 Acts of Canada and Newfoundland objected to by United States. 



DEPARTMENT or STATE, Washington, June 2nd, 1909. 



EXCELLENCY, By Article II of the Special Agreement of January 

 27th last between Great Britain and the United States for the sub- 

 mission to arbitration of questions relating to the North Atlantic 

 Coast Fisheries, it is provided : 



" Either Party may call the attention of the Tribunal to any 

 legislative or executive act of the other Party, specified within three 

 months of the exchange of notes enforcing this agreement, and which 

 is claimed to be inconsistent with the true interpretation of the 

 Treaty of 1818; and may call upon the Tribunal to express in its 

 award its opinion upon such acts, and to point out in what respects, 

 if any, they are inconsistent with the principles laid down in the 

 award in reply to the proceeding questions ; and each party agrees to 

 conform to such opinion." 



At the request of Mr. Chandler P. Anderson, the Agent of the 

 United States in this proceeding, I have the honour to present to you 

 the accompanying list, prepared by him of the legislative and exec- 

 utive Acts of Canada and Newfoundland, which are specified on the 

 part of the United States in compliance with the requirement 

 5 of the above Article that the legislative and executive Acts 

 referred to therein must be specified within Special' Agreement, 

 which period will not expire until the 4th of this month, the notes 

 referred to having been exchanged on March 4th last. 

 I have, &c. 



(Sgd.) P. C. KNOX. 



NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES : ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE. 



List of Legislative and Executive Acts of Canada and Newfoundland specified 

 on the part of the United States under the provisions of Article II of the 

 Special Agreement of January 27, 1909, between the United States and Great 

 Britain. 



Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906. 

 Chapter 45 The Fisheries Act ; 



Chapter 47 The Customs and Fisheries Protection Act; 

 Chapter 48 The Customs Act ; 



Chapter 113 The Canada Shipping Act, Part VI, so far as relates to the 

 compulsory employment of Pilots and Payments of dues and Part XII 

 relating to Public Harbours and Harbour Masters, and rules and regula- 

 tions established thereunder 



Canadian Order in Council of September 12, 1907, promulgating Fishery Regu- 

 lations, (including Regulations). 



