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DECISION AND AWARD 



Afitdc 1)1/ the Tribunal of Arhilrntion constituted hy virtue of the jlrst Article 

 of the Treaty concluded at Was/iinrflon the Sth of Mmj, 11^71, between Her 

 M'ljrsfi/ the Queen of the United Kin'jdom of (Jrcat Britain and Ireland 

 and the United States of America. 



Ilcr Ikitannic Majesty find the United States of America having agreed by 

 Article I. of tiie Treaty concUulcd and signed nt Wasliington tlic Hth of ^lay, 

 1871, to refer all th.c claims "gcncrically known as tlic Altibama Claims" to a 

 Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed of five Arbitrators, named : 

 One by Her Bt-itannic Majesty, 

 One by the President of the Uniteu States, 

 One by His Majesty the King of Italy, 

 One by the Trcsidcnt of the Swiss Confederation, 

 One by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil ; 



and 

 Ilcr Britannic Majesty, tlic President of the United States, II. M. the King 

 of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and II. M. the Emperor 

 of Brazil, having respectively named their Arbitrators, to wit: 

 Her Britannic Majesty : 



Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Baronet, a Member of Her Maj- 

 esty's Privy Council, Lord Chief Justice of England ; 

 The President of the United States : 

 Charles Francis Adams, Es(iuire ; 

 His Alajcsty the King of Italy : 



His Excellency Count Frederic Srlopis of Salerano, a Knight of the Order 

 of the Annunciata, Minister of State, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy ; 

 The President of the .Swiss Confederation : 



Mr. .lames Stu'mptii ; 

 His Majesty tli3 Emperor of Brazil : 



His l'',xreilency Miinios Antonio d'Aranjo.Viscoimt of Itnjiibii, a Orandec 

 of the ICmi)iro of Brazil, Member of the Council of II. M. the l'.ni[)cror 

 of Brazil, and his Envoy Extraord! lary and Minister I'lenipotcniiary in 

 France ; 

 And the five Arbitrators nbovo named having nssombled at Geneva, in Switz- 

 erland, in one of the Chambers of the Hotel de Viilc, ou the l.'ith of December, 

 1M71, in conformity with the terms of the Second Article of the Treaty of Wash- 

 ington of the 8tli of May of that year, and having proceeded to iho inspection 



