46 • THE BRITISH COMMISSIONERS 



Sec re tar y "disqualified for an impartial investigation and 



Elaine's note to A x ° 



sir j. Pauncefote. determination of the questions to be submitted 

 Meetings of the to them." 1 The Commissioners of the two Gov- 



Joint Commission. 



ernments, after conferences during the period 

 from February 8 to March 4, 1892, adjourned, 

 and the Report now under consideration is the 

 one subsequently prepared by the British Com- 

 missioners and which has been delivered to the 

 United States and the Arbitrators as a part of the 

 British Case. 

 Report of British The bulk of the matter contained in this Report 



Commissioners. L 



relates to points considered with considerable 

 fullness in the Case of the United States, and 

 may so far be regarded as presenting questions 

 to be dealt with by the printed and oral argu- 

 ments provided for by the Treaty; but it also 

 embraces matters of allegation, in support of the 

 positions taken upon the part of Great Britain, 

 which have not been dealt with by anticipation 

 in the Case of the United States ; and also mat- 

 ters of evidence, bearing upon points dealt with 

 in that Case, the truth or sufficiency of which 

 are denied by the United States. 



•Appendix to Case of United States, Vol. I, p. 348; and Dr. 

 Dawson's paper, Appendix to British Case, Vol. 3, United States 

 No. 2 (1890), p. 450. 



