1946 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



conference, and if you look at the protocols you will see that they 

 are protocols of the 17th September; so that, although this date is 

 blank, you could, with absolute certainty, write in the date the 17th. 

 These gentlemen are making a formal report 



" We have the honour to report to your Lordship that we had 

 yesterday agreeably to appointment a further conference with the 

 Commissioners of the United States " 



1178 And so forth. It tells of certain things which the United 

 States Commissioners said, and then, in the paragraph at the 

 top of p. 87, says : 



" They concluded their observations on the subject of the fishery 

 by adverting to that part of the proposed article, in which the right 

 to fish within the limits prescribed is conveved permanently to the 

 United States." 



I think that is all I want to trouble the Tribunal with upon the 

 subject of the meaning of the word " liberty." 



THE PRESIDENT: Have you finished your argument upon this 

 point? 



SENATOR ROOT: I am entirely in the hands of the Tribunal. I 

 think perhaps we might as well adjourn. 



THE PRESIDENT: We shall be pleased to have you continue your 

 argument upon this question to-day. I was under the impression 

 that you had finished it. 



SENATOR ROOT: I have finished in regard to this particular subject 

 of the meaning of the word " liberty." 



THE PRESIDENT: The Court will adjourn until Thursday at 10 

 o'clock. 



[Thereupon, at 4.30 o'clock p. m., the Tribunal adjourned until 

 Thursday, the 4th August, 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m.] 



THIRTY-FIFTH DAY: THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1910. 



The Tribunal met at 10 a. m. 



THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Senator Root, will you kindly continue your 

 address. 



SENATOR ROOT, resuming: I wish to add a single observation as to 

 what I said regarding the meaning of the word " liberty " before the 

 adjournment. 



In stating the meaning of the word as it was used in ordinary 

 municipal affairs, I did not wish to be understood as contending, of 

 course, that it would necessarily have the same effect when used 

 internationally. I should not contend for any such proposition. 



When, on the other hand, I stated that the term " shall have 

 liberty " used in the treaty of 1783 and in the treaty of 1818, 



