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The conference was then adjourned until Tuesday, 

 the 30th instant, at half-past 12 o'clock. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 



TENTERDEN. 



ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XVI. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Sixteenth Conference, held at Geneva, in Swit- 

 zerland, on the 30th of July, 1872. 

 The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal, and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. The tribunal then proceeded with the 

 cases of the vessels the Tuscaloosa, the Tallahassee, 

 and the Retribution. 



The tribunal also decided to devote the next con- 

 ference to receiving the written or oral statement or 

 argument of the counsel of the United States, in re- 

 ply to the argument presented at the last conference 

 by the counsel of her Britannic Majesty. 



The conference was then adjourned until Mon- 

 day, the 5th of August, at half-past 12 o'clock. 

 FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 

 J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 

 TENTERDEN. 

 ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XVII. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Seventeenth Conference, held at Geneva,in Swit- 

 zerland, on the 5th of August, 1S72. 



The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal, and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. 



The tribunal proceeded with the hearing of the 

 oral argument by Mr. Evarts, counsel of the United 

 States, in reply to the argument presented by Sir 

 Roundell Palmer, counsel of her Britannic Majesty, 

 at the fifteenth conference. 



The tribunal then adjourned until Tuesday, the 

 6th instant, at half-past 12 o'clock. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 



TENTERDEN. 



ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XVIII. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Eighteenth Conference, held at Geneva, in Swit- 

 zerland, on the 6th of August, 1872. 



The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators, and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal, and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. 



Mr. Evarts concluded the oral argument on the 

 part of the counsel of the United States in reply to 

 the argument on the part of the counsel of her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty. 



Mr. Cushing delivered to the tribunal a written 

 argument on the part of the counsel of the United 

 States in reply to a portion of the argument pre- 

 sented by the counsel of her Britannic Majesty. 



The tribunal then adjourned until Thursday, the 

 8th instant, at half-past 12 o'clock. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 



TENTERDEN. 



ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XIX. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Nineteenth Conference, held at Geneva, in Swit- 

 zerland, on the Kth of August, 1872.' 

 The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators, and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal, and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. 



, The tribunal concluded the examination of the 

 case of the Retribution. 



Mr. Waite delivered to the tribunal a written argu- 

 ment on the part of the counsel of the United States, 

 in reply to a portion of the argument presented by 

 the counsel of her Britannic Mujesty. 



The tribunal then adjourned until Wednesday, the 

 14th instant, at half-past 12 o'clock. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 



TENTERDEN. 



ALEX, FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XX. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Twentieth Conference, held at Geneva, in Swit- 

 zerland, on the lith of August, 1872. 



The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal, and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. 



Mr. Bancroft Davis, in reply to an inquiry from 

 Count Sclopis on behalf of the tribunal, stated as 

 follows : 



The claims for losses growing out of the acts of the 

 Sallie, the Jeff Davis, the Music, the Boston, and the 

 V. H. Joy, are respectfully submitted for the determina- 

 tion of the tribunal. 



The agent of the United States has no instructions re- 

 garding them, except what appears in the list of claims 

 presented on the 15th of December last, and in the revised 

 list of claims presented on the 15th of April last. 



The tribunal directed this statement to be record- 

 ed, and passed to the consideration of the question 

 of " due diligence," generally considered. 



The conference was adjourned until Thursday, the 

 15th instant, at half-past 12 o'clock. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS. 



TENTERDEN. 



ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XXI. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Twenty-first Conference, held at Geneva, in Swit- 

 zerland, on the Itth, of August, 1872. 



The conference was held pursuant to adjournment. 

 All the arbitrators and the agents of the two govern- 

 ments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal and the agents of the two gov- 

 ernments. 



The tribunal proceeded to consider the effects of 

 the commissions of Confederate ships-of-war entering 

 British ports, and the supplies of coal in British ports 

 to Confederate ships. 



Lord Tenterden, as agent of her Britannic Majesty, 

 submitted the followiag statement : 



As the tribunal if now approaching the consideration 

 of the case of the Georgia, I beg respectfully to submit 

 that, in the argument, of the United States, with respect 

 to that vessel (pp. 234, 225), it is (for the first time) sug- 

 gested that the British Government ought to have in- 

 formed themselves, by inquiry, what ships were being 

 built in February, 1863, for the Emperor of China ; and 

 certain inferences appear to be drawn from the (assumed) 

 fact that they omitted to do BO. 



