24 NOETH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



hearty and effective cooperation and assistance rendered to them by 

 the department throughout the entire period covered by the arbi- 

 tration proceedings. Valuable assistance was also rendered in these 

 proceedings by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Fish Commissioner of the 

 United States , who acted as expert adviser on practical and technical 

 questions relating to the regulations of the fisheries, and has now been 

 designated as the member on the part of the United States of the 

 special commission of experts; and by Messrs. Alvin B. Alexander, 

 Carl C. Young and Arthur L. Millett, attached to the agency as fish- 

 eries experts ; and by Mr. Otis T. Cartwright, secretary of the agency 

 and special disbursing officer, Department of State; Mr. Edwin M. 

 Borchardt, expert on international law; and Messrs. Wallace J. 

 Young, James B, Davies, Charles Jenkinson, and John D. Johnson, 

 who were attached to the Agency as members of the clerical staff. 

 I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant, 



Chandler P. Anderson, 

 Agent of the United States in the 

 North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, 

 The Secretary of State, 



Washington^ D. C, 



