New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-14
OF FICIAL L.
TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs.

A PROCLAMATION by the President
the United of America. Treaty betwee
the United States and Great Britain
! Claims, fisheries. navigation of the 5
Lawrence, etc.. American lumber on til
: river St. John, boundary:-Conclqde
Nav s, 1871: notifications exchanged Jun
t IL, 1871; proclaimed July 4, 1871.
: Whereas, a treaty between the Unite
States Of America and Her Majesty til
Queen of the United Kingdom Of Grea
Britain and Ireland, concerning the settle
ment Of all causes Of difference between th
two countries, was concluded and signed q
Washington by the high commissioners an
, plenipotentiaries Of the respective govern
ments ON the eight day of May last; whic
} treaty is, word for word, as follows:
! The United States of America and He
vide for an amicable settlement of al
causes of difference between the two coun
tries, have for that purpose appointed thei
respective plenipotentiaries, that ia t
say: the President Of the. Unite'
States has appointed, on the par
Of the United States. as commission
ers in joint high commission
and plenipotentiaries, Hamilton Fish
Secretary of State Robert Cum
and minister plenipOtentiary to Great Brit
ain; Samuel Nelson. an Associate Justice o
the Supreme Court Of the United States
Ebenezer Rock God Hoar, Of Massachusetts,
and George Henry Williams, Of Oregon
and Her Britanic Majesty, on her part, ha.
appointed as her high commissioners anC
plenipotentiaries, the Right Honorable
Earl of Rpon, Viscount Goderich, Baron
Grantham, a Baronet. peer Of the United
Kingdom. Lord President of Her Majesty
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 Maiesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, a member OF
Parliament. a Companion of the Most Hon
| orable Order Of the Bath, ETC.. etc; Sir Ed
ward Thornton. Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Her
Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipOtentiary to the United States of
America; Sir John Alexander Macdonald.
Knight Commander Of the Most Honorable
Order of the Bath, q member of Her Males
tvs Privy Council for Canada, and Minister
Of Justice and Attorney General of Her
Majesty's Dominion of Canada: and Noun
tague Bernard. Esquire. Chichele Professor
Of international law in the University of
Oxford.
And the said pleripOtentiaries. after hav-
ing exchanged their full powers, which were
found to be in dne and proper form. have
agreed to and concluded the following ar
icles:
ARTICLE I.
WHEREAS. Differences have arisen be-
tween the government OF the United States
and the government OF Her Britannia Ma
jesty, and still exist, growing out of the acts
committed by the several vessels which have
given rise to the claims .generically known
as the Alabama claims"
And UhoraaS Har Rritouuio No;os%r i,o,
authorized her high commissioners and
plenipotentiaries to express, in friendly
spirit. the regret felt by Her Majestys gov
eminent for the escape. under whatever cir
cumstances. Of the Alabama and other yes.
sells from British ports. and for the depreda-
tons committed by those vessels:
Now, in order to remove and adjust all
complaints and claims on the part OF the
United States, and to provide for the speedy
settlement of such claims, which are not ad-
United by Her Britannia Majesty's govern
ment. the high contracting parties agree
that all the said claims. growing ont 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 arbitra-
tors, to be appointed in the following man
the President of the United States: one
shall be named by Her Britannia Majesty;
His Majesty the King of Italy shall be re-
guested to name one; the President Of the
Swiss Confederation shall be requested to
name one: and His Majesty the Emperor OF
Brazil shall be requested to name one
In case of the death. absence, or incapa-
city to serve of any or either of the said ar
bitratOrs, 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 Presi-
dent OF the Swiss Confederation, or 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 orig .nally named by
such head of a State.
And in the even. Of the refusal or on,is-
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 Confederation. !
,r His Majesty the Emperor Of Brazil, to |
name an arbitrator either to fill the original |
appointment or in the place of one who NAV |
nave died, be absent. or incapacitated, or
who may omit, decline, or from any cause |
lease to act as such arbitrator His Majesty |
he King Of Sweden and Norway shall be |
to name one or more persons. as |
he case may be, to act as such arbitrator
n arbitrator.
ARTICLE III.
The arbitrator shall meet at Geneva.
at the earliest convenien, day
'fter they shall have been named. and shall
proceed impartially and carefully to exam
ne and decide all questions that shall
'e laid before them on the part of the gov
rnments of the United States and Her
Britannia Majesty. respectively. All cues
ions considered by the tribunal. including
he final award shall be decided by a ma
GRITTY of all the arbitrators.
Each of the high contracting parties shall
llsO name one person to attend the tribunal I
S its agent to represent it generally in all
matters connected with the arbitration.
ARTICLE III.
The written or printed case of each of the
wo parties, accompanied by the documents.
he official correspondence, and other evil
ence on which each relies. shall be de-
lvered in duplicate to each of the arbitra-
ors and to the agent of the other party as
Don as may oe after the organization of the
tribunal. but within a period not exceeding
* months from the date of the exchange
the ratlflcatlons OF this treaty.
ARTICLE w.
Within four months after the delivery on |
9th sides OF the written or printed case.
ither party may, in like manner, deliver
1 duplicate to each of said arbitrators.
nd to the agent Of the other party, coun-
or case and additional documents. cor.
espOndence and evidence in reply to the
ase, documents, correspondence and eyi-
ence SO presented by the other party.
The arbitrators may, however, extend the
me for delivering such counter case, doc
ments, correspondence and evidence.
hen, in their judgment, it becomes neces,
Dry, in consequence of the distance of the
lace from which the evidence to be pre-