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III.

SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENTS OR ARGUMENTS

MADE BY THE

RESPECTIVE AGENTS OR COUNSEL

SUBSEQUENTLY TO

FILING THE ARGUMENTS ACCORDING TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY,

CONTENTS.

I. Statement of Sir Roundell Palmer, June 27th, 1872.

II. Reply of the Counsel of the United States to the same.

III. Argument of Sir Roundell Palmer on the points mentioned in the resolution of
the Arbitrators of July 25, 1872. Filed July 29, 1872.

IV. Argument of Mr. Evarts in reply to the argument of Sir Roundell Palmer.
V. Argument of Mr. Cushing in reply to the argument of Sir Roundell Palmer.
VI. Reply of Mr. Waite to the argument of Sir Roundell Palmer on the special ques-
tion of the supplies of coal.

VII. Argument of Sir Roundell Palmer on the question of the recruitment of men for

the Shenandoah, at Melbourne.

VIII. Observations of Mr. Cushing concerning the enlistments for the Shenandoah, at

Melbourne.

IX. Argument of Sir Roundell Palmer as to the legal effect of the entry of the Flor-

ida into Mobile.

X. Reply of the Counsel of the United States to the argument of Sir Roundell

Palmer on the special question of the legal effect of the entry of the Florida

into Mobile.

XI. Argument of Sir Roundell Palmer on the claim of the United States for interest.

XII. Reply of the Counsel of the United States to the argument of Sir Roundell

Palmer on the question of interest.

XIII. Comparative Tables presented by the Agent of the United States on the 19th of

August, 1872, in compliance with the request of the Tribunal.

XIV. Tables presented by the Agent of Her Britannic Majesty on the 19th of August,

1872, in compliance with the request of the Tribunal.

XV. Reply of the Agent of the United States to the new matter introduced by the

Agent of Her Britannic Majesty on the call of the Tribunal for elucidation in

respect to the Tables presented by the two Governments.

XVI. A note on some observations presented by Mr. Bancroft Davis, on the 29th of

I.-STATEMENT OF SIR ROUNDELL PALMER, MADE AT THE SEVENTH CONFERENCE, ON THE 27TH JUNE, 1872.'

Points upon which te desires further argument.

Further argument appears to Her Britannic Majesty's Counsel to be necessary on the following, among other points, as to all which he is prepared to show that the new arguments now advanced by the Counsel of the United States are either wholly erroneous and unwarranted, or calculated to mislead, unless corrected by proper explanations and qualifications.

[The statement then continues, as shown post, pages 380 to 384 inclusive, and closes as follows:]

IV. As to the particular ships, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Shenandoah.

Her Britannic Majesty's Counsel does not here particularize various new matters now brought forward or suggested in the Argument of the United States as to each of these ships. If those matters should appear to the Arbitrators to be of any importance, it is not doubted that they will ask for and receive the explanations and answers concerning them, which Her Majesty's Counsel will be ready at the proper time to give. General reasons why further arguments on the above points should be allowed.

1. The character of the documentary evidence presented in the several volumes of the Appendix to the Case of the United States, containing a large mass of miscellaneous papers, or extracts from papers, laid before the Congress of the United States, as to much of which it was necessarily impossible for Her Britannic Majesty's Government to anticipate the use which would be made of them in argument until the present Argument of the United States was presented.

2. The course taken by the Government of the United States in withholding (as far as was possible) their reply as well to the Case as to the Counter Case of Great Britain until the Argument was delivered, so as to make it impossible for the arguments to be at the same time delivered on the part of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, to deal adequately by anticipation with many important views which it was intended by the United States to present to the Tribunal.

3. The new and copious use made in the Argument by the United States of extracts from the works of Sir Robert Phillimore, and from speeches and writings of various British statesmen in Parliament and elsewhere, to many of which no reference had been before made, and some of which are actually now appended as new matter to the Argument itself.

This application was denied, and the reply which follows was not received by the Tribunal.

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