The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-12
Terma Of the new British Treat,

The treaty was signed to day by the High
Commission, at the Department of State.
The gentlemen, after this was done, excban.
ged congratulations on the result of their
labors, expressing the belief that they had done
the most they possibly could for peace and
the honor Of the two countries. Although the
Commissioners have been cautious in talking to
persons outside Of their own circle, the follow
ing points will be found to be correct:
FIrst-There are to be two boards of arbi-
tration, OF commissions. To one will be re-
ferred the Alabama and other similar claims.
which are recognized as national, and to be
settled on the principle Of the responsibility for
such depredatons, where the government has
not exercised the utmost diligence and precau-
tion to prevent priYatteers being fitted out in
their ports, to prey upon the commerce of a
power with whom it was at peace.
The other board is to take cognizance of
miscellaneous claims, confined principally
to periods from the commencement to the
close of our late civil war. Among these
are the st. Albans claims, for damage to pro-
perty In that town by the Canadians, but no
claims for the Fenian invasions of Canada are
to be admitted. As to the claims of British
subjects for seizures of their cotton, Great
Britain, though its Commissioners, does not
recognize them IN cases wherein each subject
took up his domicile in the South, as thereby
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contingencies of war.
All legitimate claims for cotton are to be
considered. 1t has been reported without
Warrent, that they viii amount to thirteen OF
more millions, but this is considered to be
great exaggeration. They will not probably
amount to a million dollars There will be no
difficulty in ascertaining all the particulars, as
the Treasury Department has all the dates of
all seizures of cotton, the name of the owners
thereof, and all particulars concerning the
seizure. The Government Is aware that the
full list of British claims, was recently pub
hshed IN that country, but it also has inforIna-
ton, that many Of them have already been ad-
justed, while others will not come within the
provisions of the treaty.
Among the claims which will also come
before this board, viii he that Of our govern
ment, growing out Of the purchase Of seltpeter
In the East Indies, during the war, and which
was seized by the British authorities. There
are other miscellaneous claims, which will come
before this second board.
Ahe San Juan question viii be referred to
the arbltrahon Of a friendly sovereign.
pronaoly the Emperor Of Brazil. From the
character OF thesdOcuments accompanying the
treaty, II Is inferred that the decision cannot
1all to be IN favor Of the United States. The
treaty provides Tor the free navigation of the
st Lawrence, by vessels Of the United States.
and for the nse Of Canadian canals, on the nav
ment Of the regular tolls. There are also
provisions regulating the privilege to fish in
"a QRdian waters, but these have not been as
certained nth sufficient accuracy to justify a
statement Of them, '-a.<,