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no claim based on the loss of slaves by a Brit 

 ish subject should be presented. On the other 

 hand it asked that the losses sustained by 

 Canadians through the Fenian raids should be 

 passed upon by the commission. This the 

 Americans refused to concede, and the British 

 withdrew the demand. What actually came 

 before the commission was chiefly a large mass 

 of claims by British subjects for the seizure or 

 destruction of their property incidentally to the 

 military operations on land and to the blockade 

 of the coast. A few claims against Great Brit 

 ain were presented by Americans for losses sus 

 tained in the operations of the Confederates 

 in Canada in raids across the frontier. The 

 commission, on which the position of umpire 

 was held by the Italian minister at Washington, 

 rendered its final judgment in September, 1873. 

 All the claims by Americans were dismissed, 

 and out of the 478 claims by British subjects 

 181 were allowed, with awards totalling some 

 thing over $1,900,000. 



The last of the arbitral proceedings provided 

 for in the Treaty of Washington related to the 

 familiar old matter of the inshore fisheries. 

 We have seen that the much-prized privilege 

 of fishing within the three-mile line was con- 



