The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-05-25
THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON.
Full Text Of the Document.

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS To BE SETTLED
BY FIVE ARBTTRATORs, WHEREOF
THREE SHALL BE CHOSEN, REsPEC-
TIvELY, BY ITALY, SWITZERLAND
AND BRAZIL.
WASHINGTON May 1O.-The fol-
lowing is the text of the Treaty of
Washington:
ARTICLE l. Whereas, differences
have arisen between the Government
of the United States and the Govern
ment of her Britannia Majesty, and
still exist, growing out of the acts
committed by the several vessels
which have given rise. to the claims
generally known as the Alabama
Claims, and whereas Her Britannia
Majesty has authorized her High Com
missiOners and PlenipOtentiaries to
express, in a friendly spirit, the re-
gret felt by Her Majesty's Govern
ment for the escape under whatever
circumstances, of the Alabama and
other vessels from British ports, and
for the depredations 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 admit
ted by Her Britannia Majesty's Gov
ernment, the high contracting par
ties agree that all the said claims
growing out of the acts committed by
the aforesaid vessels, and generally
known as the Alabama Claims, shalt
be referred to a Tribunal or Abritra-
ton to be composed of five arbitratOrs
to be appointed in the following man
ner, that is to say: The first shall be
named by the President of the United
States, one shall be named by Her
Britannia Majesty, His Majesty the
King of Italy shall be requested to
name one, the President of the Swiss
Confederation shall be requested to
name one, and His Majesty the En-
perOr of Brazil shall be requested to
name one. In case of death, absence
or incapacity to serve, or ofeither OF. the
said arbitrators emitting or declining,
or ceasing to act as such, the Presi-
dent of the United States, or Her Bri-
tannic Majesty, or His Majesty the
King of Italy, or the President of the
Swiss Confederation, or His Majesty
the Emperor of Brazil, as the case
may be, may forthwith name another
person 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 omission,
for two months after the receipt of the
refusal, from either OF the high con-
tracting parties, of his Majesty the
King of Italy, or the President of the
Swiss Confederation. or his Majesty
the Emperor of Brazil, to name an
arbitrator, either to fill the original
appointment or in place or one who
NAV have died, be absent, incapacia
ted, or who may omit, ,declE:e, or from
any cause cease to act, as such arbi-
traitor, His Majesty the King of Nor
way and Sweden shall be requested To
name one or more persons rs the case
may be, to act as such arbitratorS. 2
ART. >. The artitratOrs shall meet
in Geneva, in Switzerland, ut the ear
liest day convenient after they shall
have been named, and shall proceed
impartially aRd carefully to examine
and decide all questions that shall be
laid before them on the part of the
Governments of the United States and
Her Britannia Majesty respectively
All questions considered by the Frib-
unal, including the final award, shall
be decided b7 majority Of all the ar
bitrators. Each of the high cOntrac-
ting parties shall also name one per-
son to attend the Tribunal as its agent
to represent it generally in all matters
connected with the arbitration.
ART. 3. The written or printed case
of each Of the two parties, accOmpan-
led by the documents, the official cor
respondence, and other evidence on
which each relies, shall be delivered in
duplicate to each Of the arbitratOrs,
and to the agent of the other party as
soon as may be after the organization
of the Tribunal, but within q period
not exceeding six months from the
date of the exchange Of the ratification
of the Treaty.
ART. 4. Within four months after