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This letter will preclude any misunderstanding which might pos- 

 sibly result from the fact that there have been a number of informal 

 conversations in camera between the Tribunal and the agents and 

 counsel of the respective parties, having some reference to this sub- 

 ject, no official record of which has been made. 



A copy of this letter has been communicated to the agent for Great 

 Britain. 



I have &c. 



(Signed) CHANDLER P. ANDERSON, 



Agent of the United States in the North 



Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration. 



No. 2. The North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration. 



On behalf of Great Britain the following memorandum is sub- 

 mitted in respect of the paper dated the 13th August, 1910, signed 

 by the agent for the United States, and addressed to the President 

 and members of the Tribunal. 



The ostensible purpose of the paper in question appears to be to 

 present an argument on behalf of the United States in favour of the 

 sufficiency of the so-called " exposition," contained in the " particu- 

 lars " of the 26th July, 1910, of the grounds upon which the United 

 States objects to certain statutes and regulations, and an argumenta- 

 tive criticism of Great Britain's answer to the same "particulars," 

 and to repeat the premature demand of the United States for the 

 constitution of a special Commission of experts the occasion for 

 whose appointment and the nature of whose functions under the 

 special agreement of the 27th January, 1909, the paper in question, it 

 is respectfully submitted, wholly misconceives. 



The real purpose of the paper, however, would appear to be to place 

 upon record a construction by the United States of the rulings and 

 directions of the Tribunal, and a statement of the United States view 

 of the effect of those rulings and directions upon the future proceed- 

 ings of the Tribunal. 



Great Britain wholly dissents from that construction of the Tri- 

 bunal's rulings, and disputes the effect attributed to them by the 

 paper in question. 



As agent for Great Britain, the undersigned, emphatically protests 

 against the time and method selected by the agent of the United 

 States for bringing before the Tribunal the matters discussed in the 

 paper. The Tribunal has risen for deliberation; counsel have sepa- 

 rated and are not available to the undersigned for consultation. The 

 written pleadings of both parties in respect of the objections to be 

 made by the United States to the statutes and regulations of which 

 it complains have taken the course directed by the Tribunal, and have 

 been closed. If the objections have been sufficiently stated, nothing 

 remains to be done at the present stage. If not, the United States 

 should apply for leave to alter or supplement its " exposition," and 

 upon any such application opportunity could be afforded to the 

 parties to be heard. 



