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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 preceding questions ; and each Party agrees to conform 

 to such opinion." 



On the part of His Majesty's Government I have the honour to 

 inform you that His Majesty's Government proposes to call the at- 

 tention of The Hague Tribunal in pursuance of the provisions of the 

 snid Article II, to certain acts of the United States, being such as 

 would fall within the provisions of that Article, and which are 

 claimed to be inconsistent with the true interpretation of the Treaty 

 of 1818 and to call upon the Tribunal to express in its award its 

 opinion upon such acts and to point out in what respect, if any, 

 they are inconsistent with the principles laid down in the award in 

 reply to the questions submitted for decision to the Tribunal. 



The acts in question are the actions of the United States Govern- 

 ment directed towards, or amounting to an attempt at, the policing 

 by the national vessels of the United States of the so-called Treaty 

 Coast that is to say those parts of the Coast of Newfoundland and 

 Labrador and the Magdalen Islands on which the inhabitants of the 

 United States have under the said Treaty a liberty to take fish in 

 common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty. 



This notice is given in compliance with the requirements of the 

 above Article that notice of the acts intended to be called into ques- 

 tion must be " specified within three months of the exchange of notes 

 enforcing this agreement," which period will expire upon this day, 

 the notes referred to having been exchanged on the fourth of March 

 last. 



I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your 

 most obedient, humble servant, 



(Signed) JAMES BRYCE. 



The Honourable PHILANDER KNOX, Secretary of State. 



Mr. Anderson to Mr. Aylesworth. 



NEW YORK, July 13, 1909. 

 Hon. A. B. AYLESWORTH, 



The Agent of Great Britain in the North 

 Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, 



17 Victoria Street, London, S. W., England. 



SIR: Official notice of your appointment as Agent of Great Britain 

 in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration having been re- 

 ceived by the Secretary of State and communicated to me as Agent of 

 the United States in this proceeding, it is appropriate that I should 

 send to you directly, instead of through the Secretary of State to the 

 British Ambassador, a formal communication which I have to make on 

 the part of the United States in reply to the note of June 4th last 

 from the British Ambassador to the Secretary of State, setting forth 

 the provisions of Article II of the Special Agreement of January 27th 

 last between Great Britain and the United States, and stating that 



