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social sentiments, incidental circumstances, all invited 

 both nations to cordial reunion. 



. In the face of many difficulties, the Commissioners, 

 on the 8th of May, 1871, completed a treaty, which 

 received the prompt approval of their respective 

 Governments; which has passed unscathed through . 

 the severest ordeal of a temporary misunderstanding 

 between the two Governments respecting the con 

 struction of some of its provisions; which has already 

 attained the dignity of a monumental act in the esti 

 mation of mankind ; and which is destined to occupy 

 hereafter a lofty place in the history of the diplomacy 

 and the international jurisprudence of Europe and 

 America. 



Coming now to the analysis of this treaty, we find 

 that Articles I. to XI. inclusive make provisions for 

 the settlement by arbitration of the injuries alleged 

 to have been suffered by the United States in conse- 1 

 quence of the fitting out, arming, or equipping, in the I 

 ports of Great Britain, of Confederate cruisers to 

 make war on the United States. 



Articles XII. to XVII. inclusive make provision to 

 settle, by means of a mixed Commission, all claims on 

 either side for injuries by either Government to the cit- J 

 izens of the other during the late Civil War, other than 

 claims growing out of the acts of Confederate cruisers 

 disposed of by the previous articles of the Treaty. 



Articles XVIII. to XXV. inclusive contain provi 

 sions for the permanent regulation of the coast fish 

 eries on the Atlantic shores of the United States and 

 of the British Provinces of Quebec, Xova Scotia, and 



