2 INTRODUCTION. 



Object of same, tions maintained by Great Britain in its Printed 

 Case, and, where any of sncli positions not dis- 

 cussed or refuted herein are at variance with those 

 assumed by the United States in their Printed 

 Case, the Tribunal is respectfully referred to that 

 document for a sufficient expression of their views 

 concerning the matters in controversy. 



The United States will deal more fully and 

 at later stages of' this controversy, through the 

 printed and oral arguments of their Counsel, with 

 all matters requiring argumentative discussion. 



original British On the 5th day of September, 1892, the Agent 



Case and eupple- 



ment « of the United States received from the Agent of 



Her Britannic Majesty copies of the Printed Case 

 of Great Britain. The United States considered 

 that the Case thus presented was not a full com- 

 pliance with the terms of the Treaty. A diplo- 

 matic correspondence between the two Govern- 

 ments followed, in which the position of the 

 United States in regard to this matter was fully 

 set forth, 1 and, as a result of this correspondence, 

 Her Majesty's Government delivered to the Agent 

 of the United States and to the Arbitrators the 

 Report of its Bering Sea Commission, accompa- 

 nied by the statement that the Government of 

 the United States was at liberty to treat this 

 Report as a part of the British Case. The United 



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