104 COUNTER CASE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



receipt of an assurance from His Majesty's Government that the 

 terms of reference to The Hague Tribunal shall include the question 

 of the right of American vessels to fish or trade in any of the bays, 

 harbors, or creeks of that portion of the Newfoundland coast between 

 Cape Ray and Quirpon Islands, together with all other questions 

 which may be raised under the treaty." In the same connection it 

 must also be noted that the Special Agreement, under which this 

 Question is submitted to arbitration, was entered into before the gen- 

 eral election in Newfoundland in the spring of 1909, in which the 

 people of Newfoundland retired Sir Robert Bond and his party from 

 office. 



TJ. S. Case Appendix, p. 1013. 



