The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-26
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TREATY BETwEENTHEU NITEDsrarrs
AND GREAT BRITAIN.
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CONCLUDED MAY s, 1s7l-RArrrrcArroSs EXCHANGE
JUNE IL, lS7l--PRocLAIMED JULY A. 1871
by Me President Of the United States Of A,nerice
A PROCLAMATION
whereas Treaty, between the Unite,
States of America and Her Majesty tn
Queen of the United Kingdom of Grea
Britain and Ireland, concerning the settle
ment of all causes Of difference between tn,
two countries, was concluded and signed
washington by the High Commissioners
and Plenipotentiaries of the respective Gov.
ernments on the eighth day of Nav last
which Treaty is, word for word, as fol
lows:
The United States of America and Her
Britannia Majesty, being DESTROYS to pro.
vide for an amicable settlement of all causes
of difference between the two countries.
have for that purpose appointed their re-
spective Plenipotentiaries, that is to saw .
the President of the United States has an
pointed, on the part of the United States
as commissioners in Joint High Commits.
sion and Plenipotentiaries, Hamilton Fish.
Secretary of State; Robert CUMMING
Schenck, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis,
ter Plenpotentiary to Great Britain: Sam
uel Nelson, an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States Ebe-
nezer Lockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts, !;
and George Henry Williams, of Oregon !;
and Her Britannia Majesty, on her part,
has appointed as her High Commissioners
and Plenpotentiaries, the Right Honoura-
Bile George Frederick Samuel, Earl de GREY
and Earl Of Ripon, Viscount Goderich, Ba-
ron Grantham, Baronet, Peer of the
United Kingdom, Lord President of Her
Malesty's Most Honorable Privy Council.
Knight of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter, etc.. etc. (; the Right Honorable
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Baronet. one
of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Priv
Council, a Member of Parliament, COM
panion of the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, etc., etc. /; Sir Edward Thornton,
Knight Commander of the Most Honoura-
BILE Order of the Bath, Her Maiesty's En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to the United States of America; Sir
John Alexander Macdonald, Knight Com
mander of the Most HONORABLE Order of
the Bath, a member of Her Majesty'sPrivy
Council for Canada, and Minister of JUS
tice and Attorney General of. Her Maiesty,s
Dominion of Canada; and Montague Ber-
nard, Esquire, Chichele Professor Of Inter
national Law in the University of Oxford.
And the said Plenipotentiaries, after hav-
ing exchanged their full powers, which were
found to be in due and proper form, have
agreed to and concluded the following arti-
cles /:
If ARTICLE /.
Whereas differences have arisen between
the Government of the United States and
the Government of Her Britannia Majesty.
and still exist, growing out of the acts com
mtted by the several vessels which have
given rise to the claims generally known as
the alabama claims :" 8la .siAl
And whereas Her Britannia Majesty has |
her High. Commissioners and
Plenipotentiaries to express, in friendly
spirit, the regret felt by Her Majesty's Gov
for the escape, under whatever
of the Alabama and other
vessels from British ports, and for the dep
committed by those vessels:
Now, in order to remove and adjust all COM
plants and claims on the part of the United
States, and to provide for the speedy settle |
ment of such claims, which are not admitted |
by Her Britannia Majesty's Government, the |
High Contracting Parties agree that the said
claims, growing out'of acts committed by |
the aforesaid vessels and generically known
as the Alabama claims," shall be referred |
to Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed
OF five Arbltrators, to be appointed in the
following manner, that is to say: One shall
be named by the President of the United |
States one shall be named by Her Britain
mic Majesty; His Majesty the King of Italy |
shall be requested to name one; the Presi-
dent of the Swiss Confederation shall be re-
quested to name one; and His Majesty the
Emperor of Brazil shall be requested to
name one.
In case of the death, absence, or inca
pacity to serve of any or either of the said |
Arbtrators, or, in the event of either of the
said Arbitrators emitting or declining or
ceasing to act as such, the President of the
United States, or Her Britannia Majesty, or
His Majesty the King of Italy, or the Pres
dent of the Swiss Confederation, OF His
Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case
may be, may forthwith name another per-
son to act as Arbitrator in the place and
stead of the Arbitrator originally named by
such Head of State.
And in the event of the refusal or omis-
sion for two months after receipt of the re-
quest from either of the High Contracting
Parties of His Majesty the King of Italy,
Or the President of the Swiss Confedera-
lion, or His Majesty the Emperor of Bra
I'll, to name an Arbitrator either to fill the i
original appointment or in the place of one
who may have died, be absent, or incapac-
tated, or who may omit, decline, or from
my cause cease to act as such Arbitrator, /
Ills Majesty the King of Sweden and Nor
way shall be requested to name one or
more persons, as the case may be, to act as
such Arbitrator or Arbitrators,
ARTICLE II.
The Arbitrators shall meet at Geneva in
at the earliest convenient day
liter they shall have been named, and shall
proceed impartially and carefully to exam
ne and decide all questions that shall be
aid before them on the part of the Govern
nents Of the United States and Her Bril-
annie Majesty respectively. All questions
considered by the Tribunal, including the
inal award, shall be decided by majority
If all the Arbitrators.
Each of the High Contracting Powers
hall also name one person to attend the
Tribunal as its agent to represent it gene
ally in all matters connected with the ar
)itration.
af ARTICLE III. ~
The written or printed case of each Of
he two Parties, accompanied by the docu-
nents, the official correspondence, and 9TH
r evidence on which either relies, shall be
delivered in duplicate to each of the Arbi-
ratorc and fn fha auapt IF Tho nfh>c Dartxr |