APPENDIX. 



TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 

 AND GREAT BRITAIN. 



Concluded Mat 8, 1871; Ratificatioxs Exchanged June 17, 1871; 

 Proclaimed July 4, 1871. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



A PROCLAMATION. 



Whereas a Treaty, between the United States of America and Her Majesty 

 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, concerning the 



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settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, was conckidefl 

 and signed at Washington by the High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries 

 of the respective Governments on the eighth day of May last ; which Treaty 

 is, word for word, as follows : 



The United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, being desirous to 

 provide for an amicable settlement of all causes of ditfei'ence between the two 

 countries, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, that 

 is to say : the President of the United States has apjiointed^ on the part of the 

 United States, as Commissioners in a Joint High Commission and Plenipoten- 

 tiaries, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State ; Robert Cumming Schenck, Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain ; Samuel Nelson, 

 an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ; Ebenezer 

 Rockwood Hoar, of ^Massachusetts ; and George Henry Williams, of Oregon ; 

 and Her Britannic Majesty, on her part, has appointed as her High Commis- 

 sioners and Plenipotentiaries, the Right Honorable George Frederick Samuel, 

 Earl de Grey and Earl of Ripon, Viscount Goderich, Baron Grantham, a Bar- 

 onet, a Peer of the United Kingdom, Lord President of Her Majesty's Most 

 Honorable Pri^y Council, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 

 etc. , etc. ; the Right Honorable Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Baronet, one of 

 Her ]Majesty"s Most Honorable Privy Council, a ileraber of Parliament, a Com- 

 panion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, etc., etc.; Sir- Edward. Thorn- 



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