LETTER OF SUBMITTAL. 



The President: 



The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to submit, 

 with a view to its transmission to Congress should you approve, 

 the report of Chandler P. Anderson, Esq.. the agent of the United 

 States in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration before the 

 Permanent Court at The Hague. 



The agent has also filed in the department, as appendices to his 

 report, copies of the cases and countercases and printed arguments 

 of the United States and of Great Britain, and the printed record 

 of the oral arguments and proceedings before the tribunal, and 

 other documents pertaining to the arbitration. It is desirable that 

 these documents should be printed; but this has not been under- 

 taken by the department, because it would involve a larger expendi- 

 ture than the department's allotment for printing permits. In this 

 connection it should be stated that many communications have been 

 received requesting copies of these documents, the interest manifested 

 no doubt being due to the great amount of historical, diplomatic, and 

 legal information which they contain. For this reason and because 

 of the general public interest in a publication containing the com- 

 plete record of a case of such great international importance, I 

 express the hope that Congress, following its uniform practice in 

 respect to printing in full the proceedings of international arbitra- 

 tions, may see fit to authorize the printing of the report and appen- 

 dices, the cost t-o be defrayed out of the appropriation for printing 

 and binding for Congress. 



Respectfully submitted. 



P. C. Knox. 



Department of State, 



Washington, January 3J, 1911, 



LIST OF DOCUMENTS. 



Final Report of Honorable Chandler P. Anderson, Agent of the United States. 



Protocols of the arbitration. 



United States Case and Appendix. 



British Case and Appendix, 



United States Connter Case and Appendix. 



British Counter Case and Appendix. 



United States Printed Argument. 



British Printed Argument. 



Oral Arguments before the Permanent Court. 



Appendix to the Oral Arguments. 



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