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1. “The right under the Treaty to present them. 
2. “To have them disposéd of and removed from further con- 
troversy. 
3. “To obtain a decision either for or against the liability of 
a neutral for claims of that description. 
4. “Tf the liability of a neutral for such claims is admitted 
in the future, then to insist on payment by Great Britain for 
those of the past. * 
5. “Having a case against Great Britain to have the same 
principle applied to it that may in the future be invoked against 
the United States.” 
Of these considerations, the last four, it is obvious, 
are the complete justification of the insertion of our 
national claims in the Treaty and of their presenta- 
tion in the “ Case.” 
Hence the duty of the Agent and Counsel of the 
United States, having charge of the judicial investi- 
gation pending before the Tribunal of Arbitration, 
remained the same in the interval between December 
15th, 1871, and June 15th, 1872, whatever diplomatic 
discussions or negotiations might be going on between 
the two Governments. Our instructions were defi- 
nite and peremptory, as the British Government well 
understood, to prepare the Counter-Case for the Unit- 
ed States, and the final Argument, on the, premises 
of the Treaty as construed by the United States and 
as explained in the American Case. Our Counter- 
Case was prepared accordingly, as already stated, and 
filed in English and in French before the Tribunal. 
And in like manner we prepared our final Argument. 
This Argument, consisting of an octavo volume of 
495 pages, after discussing fully the various questions 
of fact and of law involved in the submission to arbi- 
