TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. 59 



No. 22. 1853, February 8: Extract from Convention "between Her 

 Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, for the set- 

 tlement of outstanding Claims by a Mixed Commission. Signed 

 at London, February 8, 1853. [Ratifications exchanged at Lon- 

 don, July 26, 1853.] 



Whereas claims have at various times since the signature of the 

 treaty of peace and friendship between Great Britain and the 

 United States of America, concluded at Ghent on the 24th of Decem- 

 ber, 1814, been made upon the government of her Britannic Majesty 

 on the part of corporations, companies, and private individuals, 

 citizens of the United States, and upon the government of the United 

 States on the part of corporations, companies, and private indi- 

 viduals, subjects of her Britannic Majesty; and whereas some of 

 such claims are still pending, and remain unsettled ; her Majesty the 

 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 

 the President of the United States of America, being of opinion 

 that a speedy and equitable settlement of all such claims will con- 

 tribute much to the maintenance of the friendly feelings which sub- 

 sist between the two countries, have resolved to make arrangements 

 for that purpose by means of a convention, and have named as their 

 plenipotentiaries, to confer and agree thereupon, that is to say: 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Russell (commonly called 

 Lord John Russell), a member of her Britannic Majesty's most 

 honourable privy council, a member of parliament, and her Britan- 

 nic Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs; 



And the President of the United States of America, Joseph Reed 

 Ingersoll, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 

 United States to her Britannic Majesty; 



Who, after having communicated to each other their respective 

 full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: 



35 ARTICLE I. 



The High Contracting Parties agree that all claims on the part of 

 corporations, companies, or private individuals, subjects of her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty, upon the government of the United States, and all 

 claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, 

 citizens of the United States, upon the government of her Britannic 

 Majesty ? which may have been presented to either government for its 

 interposition with the other since the signature of the treaty of peace 

 and friendship concluded between Great Britain and the United 

 States of America at Ghent, on the 24th of December, 1814, and which 

 yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be 

 presented within the time specified in article III hereinafter, shall be 

 referred to two commisioners, to be apointed in the following manner, 

 that is to say: One commissioner shall be named by her Britannic 

 Majesty, and one by the President of the United States. In case of 

 the death, absence, or incapacity of either commissioner, or in the 

 event of either commisioner omitting or ceasing to act as such, Her 

 Britannic Majesty, or the President of the United States, respec- 

 tively, shall forthwith name another person to act as commissioner 

 in the place or stead of the commisioner originally named. 



