2220 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



sion, and Mr. Turner said that he would procure them for the Court, 

 and I now have the honour to hand them up. Both sides, of course, 

 are in possession of them. In doing so I beg to call the attention of 

 the Tribunal to the second map which is enclosed in this volume of 

 proceedings. That is the same map which is referred to in the copy 

 of the proceedings of the Halifax Commission, or that part of the 

 copy of the proceedings of the Halifax Commission printed in the 

 American Counter-Case Appendix, at p. 547. In the next to the last 

 paragraph on that page occurs this statement : 



"A reference to the accompanying map will show that the coast, 

 the entire freedom for which for fishing purposes has thus been ac- 

 quired," &c., &c. 



The map which is now before the President, in that volume which 

 I have handed up, is a copy of the map here referred to. I ask the 

 Tribunal to observe that in that map, which is the British map used in 

 the Halifax proceeding, there is a legend which states that part of 

 the coast coloured red is the part not within the limits of the grant 

 of 1818, but carried by the new grant of 1871, while the part coloured 

 blue is the part within the limits of the treaty of 1818, and to observe 

 that the blue line which marks the limits of 1818 takes in all the bays 

 and harbours, showing that at that time Great Britain quite well un- 

 derstood that all the bays and harbours that were included within that 

 blue line were within the grant of 1818. 



We have a provision in the New York code of procedure, a code 

 prepared by Mr. David Dudley Field, the same gentleman whose 

 international code the Tribunal is familiar with, to the effect that 



THE PRESIDENT: May I interrupt you a moment. Mr. Senator 

 Root: Of course this map, as being in the British Blue Book, is 

 familiar to the British counsel ? 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL: I cannot say that we are familiar with 

 the whole of the proceedings in the Halifax Commission. I was just 

 consulting my friend Sir Robert Finlay about it. It comes upon 

 us as somewhat of a surprise, but I do not want to interrupt my 

 learned friend Senator Root. We will look at this map, and we 

 will see whether we have any observations to make upon it. I am 

 sure each side only desires to act fairly by the other, and if any 

 observations occur to us, I am sure Senator Root would not mind our 

 sending a memorandum 



SENATOR ROOT: I certainly should. 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL: You say you would mind? 



SENATOR ROOT: Yes; certainly. I think any observations to be 

 made must be made now. 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL: Then I am sure I must object to the 

 evidence. How can I make observations now, in the middle of a 

 speech ? 



