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'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.
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*TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART I.
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT.
Vessels to which the claims of the United States relate..
General character of the evidence adduced by the United States...... Opinions of contemporary writers quoted by the United States....
PART II.
ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON NEUTRAL DUTIES.
Propositions affirmed by the United States..
Effect ascribed to British laws and regulations as interpretations of
international law....
Alleged duty of a government to enforce its own laws and regulations
Extent of neutral obligations as deduced from the three rules of the
treaty of Washington, and from general principles of international
law....
(A.) Original equipment, &c., of belligerent vessels in neutral
ports....
(B.) Admission of belligerent vessels into neutral ports....
First limitation suggested by the United States..
Further limitation suggested by the United States..
What is "due diligence"...
PART III.
PRECEDENTS APPEALED TO BY THE UNITED STATES.
1. Case of the Swedish ships, 1825....
2. Violations of American neutrality in 1793-'94..
Decisions of the commissioners under the Seventh Article of the
Treaty of 1794..
Case of the Cassius..
3. Violations of American neutrality during the war carried on by
Spain and Portugal against the Spanish-American Colonies....
Correspondence between the United States and Portugal...
Correspondence between the United States and Spain..
4. Later violations of the American neutrality laws
Expeditions of Lopez against Cuba, 1850-51..
Walker's expeditions against Mexico and Central America, 1853,
1855, 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860..
Fenian raids against Canada..........
Raid of 1866..
Raid of 1871...
Second raid on Canada, 1870.
Military expeditions in aid of the Cuban insurrection.
Recapitulation
VARIOUS COMPLAINTS OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.-TRAFFIC IN
MUNITIONS OF WAR, (PAGE 48.)
Geneva Second
edition. edition.
Arms and military supplies purchased by the United States....
Arms and military supplies purchased by the Confederate States.
Blockade-running and the Nassau trade....
False importance ascribed to the proclamation of neutrality.
Knowledge of facts imputed to the British government....
Restrictions on coaling at Nassau.
Orders of the 31st January, 1862, in relation to Nassau..
THE CLARENCE, TACONY, ARCHER, TUSCALOOSA, TALLAHASSEE, CHICKAMAUGA, AND
Execution of the rules of January 31, 1862, in other colonies
The Florida at Barbados..
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The Alabama, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa at the Cape of Good Hope.
United States vessels at the Cape of Good Hope.
Course pursued by other countries..
1. Holland