26 THE TREATY OF WASIIINGTOX. 



tlemeiit of all the claims" in question ; and further 

 engage that "every such claim, -whether the same 

 may or may not have been presented to the notice 

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

 Board, shall, from and after the conclusion of the 

 proceedings of the Tribunal or Board, be considered 

 and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth 

 inadmissible." 



AKRAXGEMENTS OF ARBITRATION. 



The appointment of Arbitrators took place in due 

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

 tral Governments. The United States appointed Mr. 

 Charles Francis Adams ; Great Britain appointed Sir 

 Alexander Cockburn ; the Kiug of Italy named Count 

 Frederic Sclopis ; the President of the Swiss Confed- 

 eration, Mr. Jacob Stsempfli ; and the Emperor of 

 Brazil, the Baron d'ltajubd. 



' Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis Avas appointed Agent of 

 the United States, and Lord Tenterden of Great 

 Britain. 



The Tribunal was organized for the reception of 

 the case of each Party, and held its first conference on 

 the 15tli 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 

 Tribunal. 



I observe in passing, as will be more distinctly seen 



