12 TBEATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



copies thereof to be delivered as soon thereafter as possible to each 

 of the members of the Tribunal, both arguments being delivered 

 simultaneously in each case, and that June 1st, 1910, be fixed as the 

 date upon which the first meeting of the Tribunal shall be held at 

 The Hague, for the opening of the oral arguments. 



Your Excellency's note of this date confirming the understand- 

 ing referred to is regarded by this Government as sufficient to com- 

 plete the arrangement agreed upon. 



I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, your Ex- 

 cellency's most obedient servant, 



P. C. KNOX. 



His Excellency, The Right Honorable JAMES BRYCE, O. M., 



Ambassador of Great Britain. 



Mr. Bryce to Mr. Knox. 



No. 14.] BRITISH EMBASSY, 



Washington. January 1^ 1910. 



SIR : I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of 

 to-day's date confirming the understanding already reached between 

 us for the mutual accommodation of both Governments and in ac- 

 cordance with the clause of Article VIII of the Special Agreement 

 of January 27th, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain 

 for the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, which provides 

 that the time fixed by that Agreement for the delivery of the counter 

 cases and printed arguments and for the meeting of the Tribunal 

 may be extended by mutual consent of the Parties. In this note you 

 inform me that it is agreed on the part of the United States that the 

 time within which the counter cases may be served, be extended to 

 include February 21st, 1910, and that the printed arguments be de- 

 livered on May 16th, 1910, the argument of Great Britain being 

 delivered at the Department of State, at Washington, or at the office 

 of the Agent in New York if requested, and the argument of the 

 United States at the Foreign Office at London on that date, duplicate 

 copies thereof to be delivered as soon thereafter as possible to each 

 of the members of the Tribunal, both arguments being delivered 

 simultaneously in each case, and that June 1st, 1910, be fixed as the 

 date upon which the first meeting of the Tribunal shall be held at 

 The Hague, for the opening of the oral arguments. 



Your note above referred to will be regarded by His Majesty's 

 Government as sufficient to complete the arrangement agreed upon. 



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

 most obedient, humble Servant, 



JAMES BRYCE. 

 The Honourable P. C. KNOX, 



Secretary of State, 



etc., etc., etc. 



