THE ABGUMENT OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJES- 

 TY'S GOVERNMENT. 



PRELIMINARY. 



His Majesty's Government proposes in this written Argument to 

 state its points and to refer to the evidence upon which it relies. 

 This has to a great extent been already done in the Case and Counter- 

 Case of His Majesty's Government, and to these documents His 

 Majesty's Government desires to refer as containing part of the 

 Argument on its behalf. His Majesty's Government also proposes 

 in this Argument to deal with the contentions of the United States 

 Government so far as they have been disclosed in its Case and 

 Counter-Case. 



In the Counter-Case of the United States at page 1 the following 

 passage occurs: 



" The view taken on the part of the United States as to the func- 

 tion and character of the printed Case and Counter-Case, required 

 by Article VI of the Special Agreement, has been that the Case 

 should present the evidence relied on in support of the position 

 taken with respect to each question, and that the Counter-Case 

 should deal with the evidence in reply to the Case of the other party, 

 postponing the presentation and discussion of questions of law and 

 of the issues raised by the evidence until the printed and oral argu- 

 ments. The Case of the United States was prepared in accordance 

 with this view, and in the preparation and presentation of its Coun- 

 ter-Case the United States will follow the course indicated. In 

 order, therefore, that the Counter-Case may not trespass upon the 

 province of the arguments, no attempt will be made therein .to rely 



to the portions of the British Case which deal with questions 

 2 of law or to argue the issues presented by the evidence, such 



questions being reserved for coraideration in the printed and 

 oral arguments of the United States, in which also precedents and 

 legal authorities relied upon by the United States will be presented 

 and discussed." 



In the view of the frame of the Case and Counter-Case of the 

 United States Government, a detailed consideration of its conten- 

 tions on points of law and of fact must necessarily, to a great extent, 

 be reserved for the oral argument. 



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