TABLE OF CONTENTS. XI 



Argument of Mr. John S. Ewart, K. C. Continued. 



Question 5 Continued. Page. 



Case of Delaware Bay 742 



United States inconsistency 742-3 



Controversy in 1839 742-3 



Lieutenant Paine's report, 1839 743 



The "fishermen's theory" 743 



Mr. Webster's letter-proclamation of 1852 744-5, 748, 778-9 



Debate in Senate of United States 744, 781-2 



United States position at Halifax, 1877 746-7, 854 



Difficulties of the new territorial idea 747 



1. Changing treaty 747 



2. Impossibility of proving theory by principles of inter- 



national law 747 



United States inconsistency reverted to 748-9 



"Territorial" contrasted with "fishermen's" theory 749-51 



Difficulty of "the triangle" 751-3 



Mr. Warren's new theory 753 



United States argument based on British laxity 753-5 



Meaning of "dominions" 755-6 



What the negotiators understood 756-7 



Illustration as to Fuca Straits 757-8 



Mr. Adams' letter re " Jaseur " incident 758-9 



Report of Messrs. Gallatin and Rush 759-61 



Mr. Rush's letter of 1853 761 



Instances of use of term "bays" in ordinary sense 761-2 



Explanation of term " Gulf of St. Lawrence " 763 



Treaty of 1783 764-5 



1818 765-43 



Events of 1824 766-7 



Franco-American controversy, 1821-3 767-8 



Mr. Vail's report, 1839 769-70 



Lieutenant Paine's report, 1839 770-1 



Everett-Aberdeen correspondence, 1843-5 . 771-7 



Sabiue's report 776-7 



Mr. Webster's unfinished memorandum 7821 



Admiral Seymour's instructions 784-5 



Commodore Shubrick's instructions 785-6 



Commodore Perry's admission 786-7 



Lord Malmesbury's letter to Mr. Lawrence of llth August, 1852_ 787-8 



Mr. Rush's letter to his executors in 1853 reverted to 789 



Mr. Bayard's letter of 20th May, 1886, had to do with commer- 

 cial privileges only 790 



Canadian fishery instructions in 1886 791-5 



Mr. Bayard's proposal for an arrangement 795 



International law on subject of bays 796 



Juristic and geographical meaning of "bays" 796 



Treaties of 1783 and 1818; "bays" meant same thing in each 



case 796 



Other treaties referred to 797 



Mr. Foster's argument before Halifax Commission, 1877 797 



United States position in Fur Seal Arbitration of 1893 798-9 



Case of Delaware Bay 799-800, 804-5 



Negotiations of 1806 800 



