XII . TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Argument of Sir William Snowdon Robson Continued. 



Question 7 Continued. Page. 



Commercial privileges must be given by special agreement 1150 



May an inhabitant of United States fish from a trading- vessel'.'-- lift) 



United States fishermen want right to buy bait 1157-8 



Newfoundland can refuse it 1157-8 



A trader by fishing imperils his trading rights 1159-60 



Meaning of Question 7 1100-1 



Burden of proof rests on United States 1161-2 



Question to be strictly construed 1163 



United States can show no title to commercial privileges 1163-4 



Question 2 (reverted to) 1164 



M.-iy Newfoundlanders employ foreigners? 1H54-5 



Argument of the Honorable Elihu Root 1167-1349 



Question 1 1167-1293 



Introduction 1167 



Meaning of question 1168 



A line must be drawn between what Great Britain can and can- 

 not do 1168-9 



Case of Great Britain over-states position of United States 1169 



Illustrations showing line beyond which Great Britain cannot go 



in making regulations 1169 



Marcy circulars, 1855-6 1169-70,1172-3 



Evarts-Salisbury correspondence, 1878-50 1170-1 



Fish-Thornton correspondence, 1873 1172 



Who is to determine this " line of competency " 1173 



Limitation of reasonableness 1174 



Practical effect of Great Britain constituting herself sole ar- 

 biter 1174-5 



Meaning of the terms of the article 1174 



"Liberty" and "right" 117:. s 



Duchess of Norfolk's case 1175 



"In common" 1178-81 



"Inhabitants" 1181-4 



"Bays, harbours and creeks" 1184-5 



Practical bearing of Tribunal's decision 1185 



British position at Halifax proceedings, 1877 1185-6 



Bait question 11S6-1190 



" Bultows" 1191 



Newfoundland legislation 1191-8 



Statute of 1862 11 !H 



Regulations of 1908, section 25 1192 



Statute of 1876 (Sunday Statute) 1193 



Regulations of 1908, section 78 1194 



Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland, 1892, section 9 1194-5 



Regulations of 1908, sections, 02, 03, and 54 1197 



Purse seines 1190 



Spirit and purpose of the Newfoundland legislation 1196, 1198-12U1 



American treaty right being made practically worthless 1199 



Nature of the right granted 1201 



Its perpetual character 1202 



Newfoundland attempting to rid itself of treaty burden li'O;! 



Obligation of reasonableness. _ 1203-4 



