20 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



tlcincnt of all tLc claims" in qiicstiou ; and further 

 engage that " every such claim, Avhethcr the same 

 may or may not have been presented to the notice 

 of, made, preferred, or laid heforc the Tribunal or 

 Board, shall, from and after the conclusion of the 

 ])roceedings of the Tribunal or Board, be considered 

 and treated as fnially settled, barred, and thenceforth 

 inadmissible." 



AUHANGEJIENTS OF AniUTRATION. 



The aj)j)ointnient of Arbitrators took place in duo 

 course, and with the ready good-will of the three neu- 

 tral (lovernments. The United States ajipointed 'Mv. 

 Cliarles Francis Adams; Great Britain a])pointed Sir 

 Alexander Cockburn ; the King of Italy named Count 

 Frederic Sclopis ; the President of the Swiss Confed- 

 eration, ]\[r. Jacob St.Tm})!!! ; and the Emperor of 

 Brazil, the Baron d'ltajubji, 



ISh: J. C. Bancroft Davis was appoin^.ed Agent of 

 tlie United States, and Lord Teuterden of Great 

 Britain. 



The Tribunal was organized for the reception of 

 the case of each Piu'ty, and held its first conference on 

 the loth of December, 1871. 



On the motion of Mr. Adams, seconded by Sir 

 Alexander Cockburn, it was voted that Count Sclopis, 

 as being the Arbitrator named by the first Power 

 mentioned in the Treaty after Great Britain and the 

 United States, should preside over the labors of the 

 Tril)unal. 



I observe in passing, as will be more distinctly seen 



