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which Lord Bathurst says it is the intention to exclude United 

 States fishermen are not the bays of all His Majesty's possessions, 

 but only such of those bays as are within the jurisdiction of a 

 maritime league ? 



Senator Root : I do not say they are not the bays of all His 

 Majesty's possessions. I say that they are only the bays that are 

 within the jurisdiction of the maritime league. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: You say the bays of His Majesty's 

 possessions are those which are within the maritime league ? 



Senator Root: Yes. 



Sir Charles Fitzpatrick: In the sense of that letter? 



Senator Root: Yes. ' 



The President: Will you kindly continue, Mr. Senator 

 Root? 2 



Senator Root: As to Question Two: 



"Have the inhabitants of the United States, whUe exercising the Uber- 

 ties referred to in said Article, the right to employ as members of the fishing 

 crews of their vessels persons not inhabitants of the United States?" 



As to the scope of the question : In the view of the United States, 

 if the Tribunal said that the inhabitants exercising the liberties 

 referred to have or have not a right to employ any person, who are 

 not inhabitants of the United States, the question is answered; 

 and to undertake to say that they have or have not a right to employ 

 all persons in the world who are not inhabitants of the United States 

 would be wholly unnecessary to a resolution of the question, and 

 wholly impossible for any Tribunal to undertake. 



The question points directly and solely to the competency of the 

 inhabitants of the United States who exercise the liberty to employ. 



'Thereupon, at 4.35 o'clock p.m., the Tribunal adjourned until to-morrow, 

 Friday, 12th August 1910, at 10 o'clock a.m. 



^Friday, August 12, 1910. The Tribunal met at 10 o'clock a.m. 



