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ered more convenient that tbe whole arranfjeinent should be comprised in the same 

 instrument. This explanation was accordingly rejinrtod by me to the Mar- 

 10 B qnis of Salisbury in my despatch No. 34 of tlie 4th February, 1892, transmit- 

 ting the draft of the Treatv for the approval of Her Majesty's Government. 

 (Bine Book, "United States No. 3"(18ilL')." p. 141.) 



It was not suggested at that time that the eli'ect of embodying the two Agree- 

 ments in one instrument would be to introduce any innovation iu the procedure as 

 understood when the Agreements were kept separate. If any such eliect had been 

 contemplated by the United States Government it would surely have been pointed 

 out to me at that time. 



Her Majesty's Government having agreed, in a spirit of liberality and concilia- 

 tion, that the Report of the British Commissioners shall form part of the British 

 Case, I trust that this discussion may not be renewed. But as I have been appealed 

 to both by the present and ex-Secretary of State, I fear that silence on my part 

 might be taken as an acquiescence in the interpretation put on the Treaty in Mr. 

 Foster's note of the 9th November. I therefore feel bound to otfer the above obser- 

 Aations on that note, and I venture to hope that they may throw further light on 

 the subject, and modify the conclusions airived at by the United States Government, 



(Signed) Julian Pauncefotk. 



Washington, January 7, 1893. 



