The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 14.

Whereas there was concluded at Monte Video, on the
,'l3d of June, 1857, between the Governments of Great Bri-
tain, France, and the (Mental Itspublic of Uruguay, an
agreement, providing for the settlement, by means cf a
mixed commission, of certain claims of British and French
subjects upon the RepulAcrof which agreement the foilosv-
ing is a translation

ACT.
His Excellency Don Joaquin Requena, Minister for
Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Edward Thornton, and M.
Martin Maillefer, Charges d'Affaires of England and France,
having met in the Foreign-office, for the purpose of con-
ferring a second time upon the means of establishing the
Mixed Commission to settle the claims of English and
French subjrc's on account cf losses snared during the
war; the above-mentioned gentlemen agreed to adopt, a 9
they did adopt, the following bases :
I. The claims of English and French subjects on ac-
count of losses suffered during the war, to which the law,
sanctioned on the 14th of July, 18-.3, refers, shall be defini-
tively settled, with respect to their justification and amount,
by a Mixed Commission, having the character of arbitrator.
11. ill's-Commission Orli be er,rnongcd of four persons,
two on the part of the Clovt.rame..t 01 the waota
they shall name, and two on the part of the claimants,
named by the Governments of England and France, or by
their agents duly authorised.
The Judge of .Finance of the Republic shall preside over
the said Commission, but without a deliberative vote.
111. The presentation of the claims shall he made before
the Mixed Commission, and the proceedings for their justi-

fication shall be executed by the Judge of Finance, in the
p! esence of the arbiters.
IV. The legal documents being concluded, they shall be
submitted to tile set,tence of the Mixed Commission, who
shpll decide without appeal.
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V. The decision shall be given by majority of votes, and
in case the votes be equally divided, a fifth person shall de-
cide, who shall be drawn by lot from a list of eight per—
sons, four Oriental citizens and four Englishmen and
Frenchmen, named beforehand, in the same way as the
arbitrators.

VI. The claims shall be presented in the term of 90 days
for persons residing in the territory of the Republic, and of
180 days for those who may be abroad, counting from the
day on which the Mixed Commission shall publicly announce
their installation. This term ended, no claim shall be ad-
mitted, the right of claiming being annulled.
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VII: The amount of the-indeirinitits which the Mixed
Commission shall have admitted as proved shall be acknow-
ledged by the Government of the Republic as National
Debt, the extinction of which shall be settled by a special
Convention.

In witness whereof the above-mentioned gentlemen agreed
to conclude the present Act, in three identical copies, which
they signed and scaled accordingly in Monte Video, the 23d
day of June, 1857.
(Signed)

(L.S.) JOAQUIN REQUENA.
(L.S.) EDW. THORNTON,
Charge d'Affaires of her Britannic
Majesty.
(T.. 5.) M. MAILLEFER,
Le Chargé d'Affaires de Sa Majeste
l'Empereur des Francais.
Notice is hereby given, for the information of all persons
concerned, that the Mixed Commission appointed in pur-
sumce of the foregoing agreement was installed at Monte
Video on the 23d of June, 1835; and that, consequently,
claims of persons residing within the territory of the Re-
public will be admitted up to the 21st of September next,
and claims of persons.beyond that territory up to the 20th
of December next.