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DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE AND FOREIGN RELATIONS. 



Mr. Stampfli's calculations of interest (supposing in- 

 terest to be allowed; arc made at the alternative rates of 

 5, 6, and 7 per cent., for the period of eight and one-half 

 years, from the 1st of January, 1864, to the 15th of Sep- 

 tember, 1872. 



But to this he proposes to add another year's interest 

 for the period of delay in payment after the date of the 

 award which is allowed by the treaty. 



The tribunal has no power, under the treaty, to award 

 payment of a gross sum with interest. The amount 

 awarded is to be paid without interest, and, if the tribun- 

 al were to add a year's interest to the gross sum which 

 they would otherwise award, in respect of the year al- 



lowed for payment by the treaty, they would te doing in- 

 directly what they have no authority to do directly, and 

 would (it is submitted) be contravening the true intent 

 of the treaty, and charging interest where it was the iu- 

 tenti9u of the tready that interest should not be paid. 



This is the more objectionable because it is proposed 

 to charge a whole year's interest, at either 5, 6, or 7 per 

 cent., whereas the British Government has the option, 

 under the treaty, to pay the sum awarded at any time 

 within the year allowed for that purpose, and might cer- 

 tainly raise the money (if that operation were neces- 

 sary) at a considerably lower rate of interest than 5 per 

 cent. 



$10,121,044 



TABLE IN REFERENCE TO THE ESTIMATE OF MR. STAMPFLI. 



Total United States claim in the last revised tables $14,437,143 



Necessary reductions to be made from the above supposed total : 



Double claims $1,682,243 



New claims 1,450,000 



One half-gross freight 503.576 



3,635,819 



Making the total reduced claim $10,801,324 



As against the British estimate of 7,464,764 



The mean of these two sums is 39 133,044 



Add to this Mr. Stampfli's allowances in lieu of prospective catch: 



One year's wages $588,000 



Twenty-five per cent, on the values of vessels 400,000 



The tribunal also considered the question of the 

 award of a sum in gross. 



After a detailed deliberation, a majority of the tri- 

 bunal of four to one decided, under the Vllth Article 

 of the Treaty of Washington, to award in gross the 

 sum of $15,506,000, to be paid in gold by Great Brit- 

 ain to the United States, in the time and manner pro- 

 vided by the said article of the Treaty of Washington. 



The conference then adjourned until Friday, the 

 6th inst., at half-past 12 o'clock, to be held with 

 closed doors. FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



ALEXANDER FAVROT, Sec'y. 



PROTOCOL XXX. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Thirtieth Conference held- at Geneva, in Switzer- 

 land, on the 6th of September, 18T2. 

 The conference was held with closed doors pur- 

 suant to adjournment. All the arbitrators were 



present. 

 The protocol of the last conference was read and 



approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 



cretary of the tribunal. 

 The tribunal proceeded to consider a draught of 



their decision. 

 At the request of the tribunal, Mr. Adams and Sir 



Alexander Cockburn kindly undertook to provide 



for the translation into English of the French text 



of this act of decision. 

 The conference was then adjourned until Monday, 



the 9th instant, at half-past twelve o'clock, to be 



held with closed doors. 



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 

 ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XXXI. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Thirty-first Conference held at Geneva, in Switzer- 

 land, on the 9th of September, 1872. 

 The conference was held with closed doors pursuant 

 to adjournment. All the arbitrators were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 cretary of the tribunal. 



Mr. Adams and Sir Alexander Cockburn pre- 

 sented the English translation of the act of decision 

 which they had kindly undertaken to prepare. 



The tribunal definitely adopted the act of deci- 

 sion, which was considered at the last conference 

 and decided to have it printed. 



Viscount d'ltajuba, as one of the arbitrators, made 

 the following statement : 



Viscount d'ltajuba, while signing the dscision re- 

 marks, with regard to the recital concerning the supply 

 of coals, that he is of opinion that every government is 

 free to furnish to the belligerents more or less of tbat 

 article. 



The tribunal resolved that the decision should be 

 signed at the next conference, which was to be held 

 with open doors, and adjourned until Saturday the 

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



FREDERICK SCLOPIS. 



ALEX. FAVROT, Secretary. 



PROTOCOL XXXII. 



Record of the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration 

 at the Thirty-second Conference held at Geneva in 



Switzerland, on the Uth of September, 1872. 



The conference was held with open doors, pur- 

 suant to adjournment. All the arbitrators and the 

 agents of the two governments were present. 



The protocol of the last conference was read and 

 approved, and was signed by the president and sec- 

 retary of the tribunal. 



The president then presented the decision of the 

 tribunal on the question of the " Alabama claims." 

 and directed the secretary to read it ; which was 

 done, and the decision was signed by Mr. Charles 

 Francis Adams, Count Frederick Sclopis, Mr. Jacques 

 Stampfli, and Viscount d'ltajuba, arbitrators, in the 

 presence of the agents of the two governments. 



A copy of the decision thus signed was deliv- 

 ered to each of the agents of the two governments, 

 respectively, and the tribunal decided to have a 

 third copy placed upon record ; they further decided 

 that the decision should be printed and annexed to 

 the present protocol. 



Sir Alexander Cockburn, as one of the arbitrators, 

 having declined to assent to the decision, stated the 

 grounds of his own decision, which the tribunal 

 ordered to be recorded as an annex to the present 

 protocol.* 



* This paper was not annexed to the official protocol 

 delivered to the agent of the United States. A paper en- 

 titled "Reasons of Sir Alexander Cockburn for dissent- 

 ing from the Award of the Tribunal of Arbitration " was 

 published in the supplement to the London Gazette of 

 September 24, 1872, and a copy of this number of the 

 Gazette was transmitted to the asrent of the United States 

 as the paper that should have been annexed to the pro- 

 tocol. 



