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for arbitration, certain minor questions of detail 

 respecting the interpretation of the Treaty of 1818, 

 which it is unnecessary to discuss here, the whole 

 question was finally and satisfactorily disposed of 

 by a further Treaty signed at Washington ^ on July 

 20, 19 1 2, and duly ratified by the President on 

 November 15 of that year. As Sir Charles Tupper, 

 in a letter to the Times of January 20, 1914, ex- 

 plained, Sir Allen Aylesworth, the Canadian Minister 

 of Justice who acted as the British Agent at the 

 Hague Arbitration, admitted that the Instruments 

 signed by Mr. Chamberlain and his colleagues at 

 Washington in February 1888 formed the basis of 

 the final settlement. Bearing this in mind, and 

 bearing also in mind that no friction of any moment 

 has ever arisen with the United States in regard to 

 the fishing rights of Americans in Canadian waters 

 since the negotiations of 1887-88, the reader can 

 come to but one conclusion as to the eminently 

 satisfactory and far-reaching results achieved by 

 Mr. Chamberlain's mission, and the important chap- 

 ter which it marks in his official life. 



1 Parliamentary Paper, Treaty Series, No. 22, 191 2 (Cd . 6450). 



