New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-04
OFFICIAL.
TREATIES AND PRoCLAMATIoNs

tbe limited of America. Treaty Detween
fine United States and Great DIi1al1- =
Claims, fisheries, navigation q lne r.
Lawrence, etc., American Ilmper On sns
river st. John, q,Ua
~ iSI: proclaimed July 4, 1871.
uharaas 4 treaty between the United
c4stas of America and Her Majesty the
n,aen IF fine United Kingdom of Great
1Sr;to;n and Ireland, concerning the settle
liant If All causes of difference between the
two countries, was concluded and signed at
washington by the high commissioner ana
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, chat IS TO
say: the President of the United
States has appointed 1a.si s on ca sne Ron.
ers in a Joint high commission
and nlenipotentiaries, Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State +; Robert Cum
ming Schenck, envoy extraordinary
and minister plen~ipotentiary 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, nag
appointed as her high commissioners
Observation-Disclosures, the Right Honorable
George Frederick Samuel, Earl de Grey me
| . Earl of Ripon, Visc0unt Goderlch, Baron
Grantham, a BarOnet, q peer OF the Unlteu
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'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
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, a 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
| tacue 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 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 whichhaye
| given rise to the claims genericaliy known
as the "Alabama claims;D'
And whereas, Her Britannia Majesty has
authorized her high commissioners and
plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly
Spirit, the regret felt by Her Maiesty's gov
eminent for the escape, under whatever cur
c~umstances, of the Alabama and other YES
sells from British ports, and for-the depreda-
lions committed by those vessels:
Now, in order to remove and adjust ali
| complaints and claims on the part of the
United States, and to provide for the speedy
settlement of such claims, which are not ad'
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
generically known as the "Alabama
claims,' shall be referred to q tribunal OF
arbitration to be composed of five 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
auested to name one; the President of the
Swiss Confederation shall be requested tt
name on: and His Majesty the Emperor O
Brazil shall be requested to name ne
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 thu
said arbitrators emitting or declining o.
ceasing to act as such, the President of. thu
United States. OF Her Britannia Majesty, o.
His Majesty the King of Italy, or the Presi
dent of the.Swiss Confederation, or til
Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the cas-
NAV be, may forthwith name another per
son to act as arbitrator in the place AM
stead of the arbitrator originally named b.
such head of a 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 contractinI
parties of His Majesty the King of Italy, o
the President of the Swiss Confederation
or His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, t
name an arbitrator either to I'LL the origina
appointment or in the place of n who ma
have died, be absent, or incapacitated, o
who NAV omit, decline, or from any caus
cease to act as such arbitrator, His Majest
the King of Sweden and Norway shall b
requested to name one or more persons, a
the case may be, to act as such arbitrato
or arbitrat0rs.
ARTICLE II.
The arbitrators shah meet at Geneva
Z Switzerland, at the earliest convenient da
after they shall have been named, and sha
proceed impartially and carefully to exam
! inc and decide all questions that sha
be laid before them on the part of the go
ernments of the United States and He
Britannia Majesty, respectively. ALI que
lions considered by the tribunal, includin
, the final award, shall be decided by a M
, jority of all the arbitrators.
Each of the high contracting parties sha
also name one person to attend the tribun'
t as its agent to represent it generally in a
matters connected with the arbitration.
ARTICLE III.
, The written or printed case of each of IL
, two par rites, accompanied by the document
the official correspondence, and other ev
q denee on which each relies, shall be d
q livered in duplicate to each of the arbitr
h. tors and to the agent of the other party
# soon as may be after the organization of Il
tribunal, but within a period not exceediI
It six months from the date of the exchanl
OF the ratiications of this treaty.
d ARTICLE ~.
N Within four months after the delivery 4
g both sides of the written or printed cas-
y either party may, in like manner, dehv
d in duplicate to each of said arbitrator
n and to the agent of the other party, a cou
u ter case and additional documents, CT
u r~espondence and evidence in reply to t
u case, documents, correspondence and g,
is dence so presented by the other party.
The arbitrators may, however, extend t
time for delivering such counter case, de-
It. uments, correspondence and eyidens
when, in their judgment, it becomes nee,
sary, in consequence of the distance of 1
~ place from which the evidence to be pl
" sented is to be procured.
If in the case submitted to the arbitrate