10 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



Mr. Aylesworth to Mr. Anderson. 



15, VICTORIA STREET, 

 London, S. W., 6th August, 1909. 



CHANDLER P. ANDERSON, Esq., 



Agent of the United States in the North Atlantic Coast 



Fisheries Arbitration, 35, Wall Street, New York. 

 SIR : Under date 2nd June last the Secretary of State at Washing- 

 ton, notified His Majesty's Ambassador there, under the provisions of 

 Article II of the special Agreement between Great Britain and the 

 United States for the submission to arbitration of questions relating 

 to the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries, that certain specified Statutes 

 of Canada and Newfoundland were considered by the United States 

 inconsistent with the true interpretation of the Treaty of 1818, but 

 no indication was given of the special clauses or provisions of the 

 said Statutes which it will be claimed are obnoxious to the said 

 Treaty. 



I have the honour to point out that the different provisions of the 

 Statutes enumerated, are so numerous and various, that the Solicitors 

 and Counsel for His Majesty's Government in connection with the 

 arbitration are quite unable to identify those which are to be called 

 to the attention of the Tribunal, and in these circumstances I beg to 

 request that, at as early a date as may be practicable, I may be fur- 

 nished with a statement indicating with as much precision as is pos- 

 sible, the specific clauses or sections of each of the Statutes mentioned 

 in regard to which it is the intention of the Government of the 

 United States to ask the Tribunal to express, in its award, an 

 opinion. 



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



A. B. AYLESWORTH, 

 Agent for Great Britain in the North 



Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration. 



Mr. Anderson to Mr. Aylesworth. 



WASHINGTON, D. C., October 82, 1909. 

 Honorable A. B. AYLESWORTH, 



Agent for Great Britain in the 



North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, 



Ottawa, Canada. 



SIR: Replying to your letter of August 6th last in which you re- 

 quest, with reference to the list of Acts specified on the part of the 

 United States under Article II of the Special Agreement of January 

 27, 1907, that at as early a date as may be practicable you may be 

 furnished with a statement indicating with as much precision as 

 possible the objectionable clauses or sections of each of the Acts speci- 

 fied, I have the honor to inform you that if it becomes necessary to 

 bring up for discussion the Acts specified on the part of the United 

 States, it is not anticipated that there will be occasion to go bevond 

 the particular sections or clauses thereof, which are printed in the 



