TABLE OF CONTENTS. XIII 



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



Question 1 Continued. Page. 



Statute and Order-in-Council of 1819 845-6 



Statute of 1824 846-7 



Extreme pretension of the United States 846-7 



Sunday prohibition 847 



Franco-American controversy, 1821-3 848 



Mr Tail's report, 1839 848 



Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Stevenson, 20th February, 1841 848-0 



Boutwell circulars, 1870, 1872 850-1 



Treaty of 1871 851-3 



Mr. Trescott's position at Halifax, 1877 852-4 



Evarts-Salisbury correspondence 854-7 



Statute of Maine. 1883 857-8 



American retaliatory statute, 1887 858 



Geography and the treaty have given colonial fishermen some 



advantages 859 



Security United States has that regulations will be reasonable 859-60 



Previous attempts at joint regulation 860-1 



Concept of servitudes 861-2 



"Partition of empire" theory . 862-9 



United States constitution: no State shall pass laws impairing 



obligation of contracts 869-70 



Cooley on the constitution 870-1 



Summary of argument 871 



Communication from the Tribunal : detailed statement of par- 

 ticular provisions of statutes and regulations, objected to by 



each party, asked for 872 



Argument of the Honorable Samuel J. Elder 872-963 



Circumstances leading to this Arbitration 872-3 



Newfoundland and Foreign Fishing- Vessels Act, 1905 873 



Sir Robert Bond's speech at Colonial Conference 873-4 



Newfoundland statute of 1887 875-6 



Bait Act of 1887 and Sir J. Winter's remarks 876 



Unconfirmed treaty of 1888 877 



Sir Robert Bond's speech in 1905 878-9 



Blaine-Bond Treaty, 1891 878 



Hay-Bond Treaty, 1902 878, 879 



West coast herring fishery 878-9 



Bait essential to American fishermen 879-80, 886 



Right of Americans to employ Newfoundlanders 880-5 



Modus vivendi of 1906 886-7 



The "Mascot" 889 



Imperial Government not desirous of hampering American fisher- 

 men 890-1,901 



Crane and Dubois incident 891,897 



Hiring men just outside 3-mile limit 893 



Sir Robert Bond's speech in Parliament, 1906, criticising modus 



vivendi 894-5 



Mass meetings at Bay of Islands and Ferryland, 1907 895-7 



Sir Robert Bond at Colonial Conference, 1907 896, 898 



Root-Grey correspondence, 1905-6 . 898-9 



Insistence of Sir Robert Bond in having Question No. 6 submitted 900-J 



