MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS. IS^ 



CHAPTER III. 



MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS. 



TREATY rnovisiONs. 



The Treaty goes on to provide, in Articles XII. to 

 XVII. inclusive, that all claims on the pai't of corpo- 

 rations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of 

 the United States, upon the Government of Great 

 Britain, arisincr out of acts committed ai^ainst the 

 persons or property of citizens of the United States, 

 during the per'od between A})ril 18, lSGl,and April 

 0, 1805, inclusive, not being claims growing out of the 

 acts of the vessels referred to in the previous articles 

 of the Treaty ; and all claims, with the like excep- 

 tion, on the part of cor])orations, companies, or pi-ivate 

 individuals, subje'cs of Great Britain, upon the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, arising out of acts com- 

 mitted against the persons or property of subjects of 

 Great Britain during the same period, shall be refer- 

 red to three Conmiissioners to be appointed, one by 

 each of the two Governments, and the third by the 

 two Governments conjointly : these Commissioners 

 to meet at Washington, there to hear, examine, and 

 decide upon such claims as may be presented to then\ 

 by either Government. 



The stipulation, it will be perceived, does not cover 



