g TBEATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



"His Majesty's Government proposes to call the attention of the 

 Hague Tribunal in pursuance of the provisions of the said 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 prin- 

 ciples laid down in the award in reply to the question submitted for 

 decision to the Tribunal," and stating further that " The acts in ques- 

 tion are the actions of the United States Government 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 sub- 

 jects of His Britannic Majesty." 



I have the honor to call attention to the very general terms of the 

 specification of the actions of the United States Government referred 

 to in the above communication, and although no provision is made 

 in the Special Agreement for the procedure to be taken in case the 

 specification of the acts referred to in Article II of that Agreement 

 is regarded as inadequate or otherwise objected to by either party, 

 nevertheless the Agent and Counsel on the part of the United States 

 in this case are of opinion that you should be promptly notified that 

 owing to the generality of the terms of the specification, they are 

 unable to identify the particular acts which are to be called into 

 question. It may prove to be unnecessary to urge this objection for 

 generality before the Tribunal if meanwhile data sufficient to cure 

 the objection is furnished by Great Britain in time to enable the 

 Agent and Counsel on the part of the United States to investigate 

 the acts referred to, with a view to a proper discussion of the ques- 

 tions presented, but otherwise formal objection to the presentation 

 of the acts referred to will be made before the Tribunal on the ground 

 that the specification does not meet the requirements of the provisions 

 of Article II of the Special Agreement. 



I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 



CHANDLER P. ANDERSON, 



Agent of the United States in the 



North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration. 



Mr. Aylesworth to Mr. Anderson. 



15 VICTORIA STREET, 

 London, S. W., J t th August, 1909. 

 CHANDLER P. ANDERSON, Esq., 

 Agent for the United States, 



in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration. 



35 Wall Street, New York. 



SIR : I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of vour communi- 

 cation of the 13th July, stating that the Agent and Counsel of the 



