New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-25
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TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs.

Nav 8, 1871: ratiticatlOns exchanged June
H. 1871; proclaimed July 4, 1871.
Whereas, treaty between the United
| States of America and Her Majesty the
| Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
| Rritain and Ireland, concerning the settle
| ment of all causes of difference between the
| two countries, was concluded and signed at
| Washington by the high commissioners and
Observation-Disclosures of the respective govern
| ments on the eight day of May last; which
| treaty is, word for word, as follows:
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 coun-
tries, have for that purpose appointed their
respective plenipOtentiaries, that is to
say: the President of the United
States has appointed, on the part
of the United States, as commission
ers in joint high commission
and Observation-Disclosures, Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State; Robert Cum
ming Schenck, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Great Brit
ain; Samuel Nelson an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States;
Ebenezer lockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts;
and George Henry Williams, of Oregon;
and Her Britanic Majesty, on her part, has
appointed as her high commissioners and
Observation-Disclosures, the Right Honorable
George Frederick Samuel Earl de Grey and
Earl of Ripon, Niscount Goderlch, Baron
Grantham, Baronet, a peer of the United
Kingdom, Lord President of Her Majesty'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 g
Most Honorable Privy Council, member of
Parliament, 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
Maiesty'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, member of Her Males
tvs Privy Council for Canada, and Minister
Of Justice and Attorney General of Her
Maiesty's Dominion of Canada; and Noun
tague Bernard, Esquire, Chichele Professor
of international 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 ar
ticles
ARTICLE 1.
WHEREAS, Differences have arisen be-
tween the government of the United States
and the government of Her Britannia Ma
iesty, 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 whereas, Her Britannia Majesty has
authorized her high commissioners and
to express, in friendly
pirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's gov
eument for the escape, under whatever cir
cunstances, of the Alabama and other YES
seLfrom British ports, and for the depreda-
tl0n committed by those vessels:
NO., in order to remove and adjust all
complints and claims on the part of the
UnltedStates, and to provide for the speedy
settlem4t of such claims, which are not adj
united y Her Britannia Majesty's govern
ment, I'd, high contracting parties agree
that All IN said claims, growing out of acts
committed by the aforesaid vessels and
generlcally known as the Alabama
| CLAIMS, shal be referred to tribunal of
| arbitratIon tore composed of five arbitra-
tors, to be appointed in the following man
| ner, that is to ssv: One shall be named by
the President the United States: one
shall be named b. Her Britannia Majesty:
His Majesty the Eng of Italy shall be re-
| quested to name on; 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 dealt, absence, or incapa-
| city to serve of any or ,ither of the said ar
bltrators, or, in the ev,nt of either of the
said arbitrators omittilg or declining or
ceasing to act as such, the President of the
| United States, or Her Britaunic Majesty. or
His Majesty the King of Itay, or the Presi-
| dent of the Swiss Confede alton, or His
Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case
| may be, may forthwith name another per-
son to act as arbitrator in tie place and
stead of the arbitrator original uamed by
such head of State.
And in the event of the refusal NJ omis-
sion for two months after receipt of the re-
quest from either of the high contracting
parties of His Majesty the King of Ihly. 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 the place of one who NAV
have died, be absent, or incapacitated, O,
who may omit decline, or from any cause
cease to act as such arbitrator His Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway shall be
requested to name one or more persons, al
the case may be, to act as such arbitrator
or arbitrator.
ARTICLE II.
The arbitrators shall meet at Geneva.
Switzerland, at the earliest convenient day
after they shall have been named. and shall
proceed impartially and carefully to exam
inc and decide all questions that shall
be laid before them on the part of the gov
ernments of the United States and Her
Britannia Majesty, respectively. All cues
tons considered by the tribunal including
the final award, shall be decided by ma
jority of all the arbitrators.
Each of the high contracting parties shall
also name one person to attend the tribunal
as its agent to represent it generally in all
matters connected with the arbitration
ARTICLE III.
The written or printed case of each of the
two par ties, accompanied by the documents,
the official correspondence, and other evil
dence on which each relies, shall be de-
livered in duplicate to each of the arbitra-
tors and to the agent of the other party as
soon as may be after the organization of the
tribunal, but within a period not exceeding
SIX months from the date of the exchange
OF the Publications of this treaty.
ARTICLE ".
Within four months after the delivery on
DoIh sizes OF the written or printed case,
either party may, in like manner, deliver
In duplicate to each of said arbitrator,
and to the agent of the other party, a coun-
ter case and additional documents, cor
respondence and evidence in reply to the
case, documents, correspondence and evil
dence so presented by the other party.
The arbitrators may, however, extend the
time for delivering such counter case. doc
uments, correspondence and evidence.
when, in their judgment, it becomes neces,
sary, in consequence of the distance of the
place from which the evidence to be nre.
scented is to be procured
Ii in the case submitted to the arbitrators
either party shall have specified or alluded
to any report or document in its own ex-
elusive possession without annexing copy
such party shall be bound, if the other
party thinks proper to apply for it, to fur
nish chat party with copy thereof and
either party may call upon the other
through the arbitratOrs, to produce the