New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-12
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TREATIES AND PRoCLAmAr1oNs.


| A PROCLAMATION by the President of
1 the United of America. Treaty between
the United States and Great Britain
| Claims, fisheries, navigation of the st.
Lawrence, ETC., American lumber on the
river ST. John, boundary-Con
| May 8, 1871; notifications exchanged June
| IL, 1871; proclaimed July 4, 1871.
Whereas, a treaty between the United
States of America and Her Majesty the
| Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, concerning the settle
| two countries, was concluded and signed at
| Washington by the high commissioners and
| plenipotentiaries 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
| say: the President of the United
States has appointed, on the part
| of the United States, as commission
| and plenipotentiaries, Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State; Robert Cum
ming Schenck, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Great Brit,
| 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, Viscount Goderich, Baron
Grantham, a 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 Maiestys
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 Ordef. 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, a member of Her Males
tvs Privy Council for Canada, and Minister
of Justice and Attorney General of Her
Msjesty'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 L.
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 xubaraos Har Rr;toruie Ma;oofv hoe
authorized her high commissioners and
plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly
spirit, the regret felt by Her Majesty's 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
United States, and to provide for the speedy
settlement of such claims, which are not adj
mitted by Her Britannia Majesty's govern
ment, the high contracting parties agree
that all the said claims, growing out of acts
committed by the aforesaid vessels and
generieally known as the alabama
CLAIMS" shall be referred to a tribunal of
arbitration to be composed OF i've arbitra-
tors, to be appointed in the following man
ner, that is to say: One 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 re-
quested 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, OF incapa-
city to serve of any or either of the said ar
bitratOrs, or, in the event of either of the
said arbitrators omitting 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 originally named by
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 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 may |
have died, be absent, or ineapacitated, or |
who may omit, decline, or from any cause |
cease to act as such arbitrator, His Majesty |
the King of Sweden and Norway shall be |
to name one or more persons, as |
the case may be, to act as such arbitrator |
oF arbitrators.
ARTICLE II.
The arbitrator 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 Mid before them on the part of the gov |
of the United States and Her |
Britannia Majesty, respectively. All cues |
tions considered by the tribunal, including |
the final award, shall be decided sby 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 paI 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 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 |
both sides of the written or printed case, |
either party may, in like manner, deliver |
In duplicate to each of said arbitrators,
and to the agent Of the other party, coun-
ter case and additional documents, cor
and evidence in reply to the |
case, documents, correspondence and evil |
denoe SO presented by, the other party.
The arbitrators may, however, extend the
time for. delivering such counter case. doc
uments, correspondence land evidence. |
when, in their judgment, it becomes neces-
sary, in consequence of the distance of the |
place from which the evidence to be pre-
sented is to be procured