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  3. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume II
  4. The American commissioners and the statement of Sir Stafford Northcote
    at Exeter, in relation to an alleged promise of exclusion of the indirect claims of the United State.

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume II

The American commissioners and the statement of Sir Stafford Northcote
at Exeter, in relation to an alleged promise of exclusion of the indirect claims of the United State.

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  • No. 1. A passage from a speech of Sir Stafford Northcote, at Exeter, May 17, 1872, as published in the Pall Mall Gazette of May 18
  • 2. Extract from the London Times of May 20, 1872, giving a report of the speech of Sir Stafford Northcote, at Exeter
  • 3. Extract from an instruction of Mr. Fish to General Schenck, June 3, 1872
  • 4. Copy of a letter of Mr. Fish addressed to each of the American Commissioners
  • 5. Letter of Judge Hoar, in answer to Mr. Fish’s letter of June 3
  • 6. Letter of Judge Nelson, in answer to Mr. Fish’s letter of June 3
  • 7. Letter of General Schenck, in answer to Mr. Fish’s letter of June 3
  • 8. Letter of Judge Williams, in answer to Mr. Fish’s letter of June 3
  • 9. Extract from the 36th Protocol of the Conferences of the Joint High Commission
  • 10. Extract from a speech of the Marquis of Ripon, in the House of Lords, June 4. 1872, taken from the London Times of June 5, 1872
  • 11. Letter of Sir Stafford Northcote to Earl Derby, June 5, 1872, read in the House of Lords June 6, taken from the report of the proceedings in the House of Lords, in the London Times of June 7
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Contents

    • Sir Stafford Northcote’s declaration. (Documents 262–272)

    Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington

    • Papers relating to the treaty of Washington.
    • Remainder of papers accompanying the Counter Case of the United States (Documents 1–115)
      • [i] *Counter Case presented on the part of the government of Her Britannic Majesty to the tribunal of arbitration constituted under Article I of the treaty concluded at Washington on the 8th May, 1871, between Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America. (Documents 116–129)
        • Instructions to the agent and counsel, and proceedings at Geneva in December, 1871, and April, 1872. (Documents 130–135)
          • Correspondence respecting the Geneva arbitration and the proposed supplemental Article to the Treaty. (Documents 136–261)
            • The American commissioners and the statement of Sir Stafford Northcote
              at Exeter, in relation to an alleged promise of exclusion of the indirect claims of the United State.
              (Documents 262–272)

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