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ton, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Her Majes 

 ty s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 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 Majesty s Privy Council for 

 Canada, and Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Her Majesty s Do 

 minion of Canada ; and Mountague Bernard, Esquire, Chichele Professor of In 

 ternational Law in the University of Oxford. 



And the said Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers, which 

 were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the 

 following articles : 



ARTICLE I. 



Whereas differences have arisen between the Government of the United States 

 and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, and still exist, growing out of 

 the acts committed by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims 

 generically known as the &quot;Alabama Claims :&quot; 



And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners 

 and Plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt by Her Maj 

 esty s Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Ala 

 bama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed 

 by those vessels : 



Now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part 

 of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims, 

 which are not admitted by Her Britannic Majesty s Government, the High Con 

 tracting Parties agree that all the said claims, growing out of acts committed 

 by the aforesaid vessels and generically known as the &quot;Alabama Claims,&quot; shall 

 be referred to a Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed of five Arbitrators, to be 

 appointed in the following manner, that is to say : One shall be named by the 

 President of the United States ; one shall be named by Her Britannic Majesty ; 

 His Majesty the King of Italy shall be requested to name one ; the President 

 of the Swiss Confederation shall be requested to name one ; and His Majesty the 

 Emperor of Brazil shall be requested to name one. 



In case of the death, absence, or incapacity to serve of any or either of the 

 said Arbitratoi-s, or, in the event of either of the said Arbitrators omitting or 

 declining or ceasing to act as such, the President of the United States, or Her 

 Britannic Majesty, or His Majesty the King of Italy, or the President of the Swiss 

 Confederation, or His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case may be, may 

 forthwith name another person to act as Arbitrator in the place and stead of 

 the Arbitrator originally named by such Head of a State. 



And in the event of the refusal or omission for two months after receipt of the 

 request from either of the High Contracting Parties of His Majesty the King 

 of Italy, or the President of the Swiss Confederation, or His Majesty the Em 

 peror of Brazil, to name an Arbitrator either to fill the original appointment or 

 in the place of one who may have died, be absent, or incapacitated, or who may 



