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lloavil lie niipointcil, n.s a full, {icrfeft, nml final settlement of all tlic claims 

 licreinhefore icfcned to ; and fiirtlicr engage that every such claim, whothor 

 the same may or may not have been I'resentcd to tlie notice of. made, jirofer- 

 rcd, or laid hcfore the Trihunal or Uoard, shall, from and after the conclusion 

 of the jiroceedings of the Trilainal or lU)ard, lie considered uad treated as ri- 

 uolly settled, barred, and tlienccfurth inadmissible. 



AuTici.i; XII. 



Tlic High Contracting Parties agree that idl claims on tho part of coqior.v 

 tions, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United .'states, upon the 

 Government of Her IJritannie JIajesty, arising out of act.s committed against 

 the persons or property of citizens of the Unitetl .vtates during the jicriod be- 

 tween the thirteenth of April, eighteen Inmdred and sixty-one, and the ninth 

 of Ajiril, eighteen linndred and'sixty-five, inclusive, not being claims growing 

 out of the acts of the vessels referred to in Article I. of this Treaty, and all 

 claims, with the like excciition, on the jiart of corjiorations, companies, or pri- 

 vate individuals, subjects of Her IJritannie Majesty, upon the Goverimicnt of 

 the United States, arising out of acts committed against the persons or prop- 

 erty of subjects of Iler IJritannie Majesty dining the same peiiod, which mav 

 have been presented to either Government for its interjxisition with the other, 

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

 l)rcsented within the time specified in Article XIV. of this Trc4ity, shall be re- 

 ferred to three Commissioners, to be appointed in the following manner, that is 

 to say: One Commissioner shall be named by the Tresidcnt of ilie United 

 States, one by Her Hritannic Majesty, and a third by the I'rcsident of the 

 United States and Iler Britannic Majesty conjointly; and in case the third 

 Commissioner shall not have been so m>med wiiliin a jieriod of three months 

 from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, then the 

 third Commissioner shall be named by the ]{cprescntativc at Wasuington 

 of His Majcstv the King of Spain. In case of the death, absence, or inca- 

 pacity of any Commissioner, or in the event of any Commissioner omitting 

 or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore pro- 

 vided for making the original ai)pointment ; the period of three months in case 

 of such substitution being calcidated from the date of the happening of the 

 Tacancy. 



The Commissioners so named sliall meet at Washington at tlie earliest con- 

 venient period after they have been respectively named ; and shall, before \<ro- 

 cccding to any business, make ami sid)scribe n solemn declaration that they 

 will imi)artially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, 

 nnd according to justice and cipiity, all such chiims as shall be laid before them 

 on the ])art of tho Governments of the United States and of Her IJritannie Maj- 

 esty, respectively ; and such declaration shall bo entered on the record of their 

 inocccdings. 



