duced according to the provisions of the protocol accompanying the treaty of Washington. (American Memorial, French text, page 3.)

In the annexed tables this modification has been made by deducting from the sum total, submitted December 15, 1871, the expenses caused by the acts of vessels for the acts of which the Tribunal has decided that it could not hold Great Britain responsible.

The summing up shows the sum total of the claims now submitted on the part of the United States, including the "prospective catch," and the sums total embraced in the classified British estimates submitted in the Counter Memorial and in the Argument of Great Britain.