1832 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



not, as has been said, a voluntary renunciation on the part of the 

 United States. I shall show letters which indicate that England 

 demanded the renunciation and got it. England said : "We will now 

 make you renounce that which we gave you in 1783. We gave you 

 the right to fish on the open coast and we gave you the embayed 

 waters. We gave you the right to fish inside of the bays more than 

 3 miles from the coast, and we are now going to take that right back. 

 The right to go inside of those bays you shall not have." They are 

 not using the word "bays" there as a superfluous or unnecessary 

 word; they are using the word "bays" as being something quite 

 different from the rest of the coast because, as you remember, when 

 you look at the proviso, the proviso says that you shall not enter the 

 bays. They are not handed back to the open sea ; they are still kept 

 closed against you and you shall not enter them for the purpose of 

 fishing. 



DR. DE SAVORNIN LOHMAN: I may only remark that it wa> not 

 Great Britain that said : " We will not give them to you," but it 

 was the Americans who said : " We will renounce them." 



SIR W. ROBSON : That is a question. It has come to be treated as 

 one of the accepted facts of the case, but I think I shall show that it 

 is not accurate. It has come to be accepted as one of the facts of the 

 case, because it has been so often asserted. It is not a fact that the 

 Americans insisted on the renunciation. I had better keep that 

 until Monday morning, and I will read the passages which show 

 clearly that England demanded the renunciation, that Mr. Monroe 

 did not like it, but that afterwards they renounced their right. The 

 American negotiators write home and try to justify their sagacity by 

 saying: " See, we have actually insisted upon renouncing these bay- : 

 we have insisted upon renouncing them because we have done an 

 extremely ingenious thing in cretting the right to fish up to 3 mi! 

 That was not an accurate statement of the matter, as some other 

 statements made in the same report were not accurate. That has not 

 been dealt with yet, and I have given a little attention to that part 

 of the case because I thought it was very singular that anyone should 

 insist upon giving something up. I have never yet known 

 1108 nations to insist upon renouncing anything, and I think it will 

 be found in this case that they are like other nations and keep 

 all they can get. 



THE PRESIDENT: The Court will adjourn until Monday at 10 

 o'clock. 



[Thereupon at 4.10 o'clock p. m., the Tribunal adjourned until 

 Monday, the 1st August, 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m.] 



