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DECISION AND AWARD 



Made by the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted by virtue of the first Article 

 of the Treaty concluded at Washington the 8th of May, 1871, between Her 

 Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 

 and the United States of America. 



Her Britannic Jlajesty and the United States of America having agreed by 

 Article I. of the Treaty concluded and signed at Washington the 8th of May, 

 1871, to refer all the claims "generically known as the Alabama Claims" to a 

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

 One by Her Britannic Majest}', 

 One by the President of the United States, 

 One by His Majesty the King of Italy, 

 One by the President of the Swiss Confederation, 

 One by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil ; 



and 

 Her Britannic Majesty, the President of the United States, H. M. the King 

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

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

 Her Britannic Majesty : 



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

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

 The President of the United States : 

 Charles Francis Adams, Esquire ; 

 His Majesty the King of Italy : 



His Excellency Count Frederic Sclopis 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. James Sta:mpfli ; 

 His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil : 



His Excellency Marcos Antonio d'Araujo,Viscount of Itajuba, a Grandee 

 of the Empire of Brazil, Member of the Council of H. M. the Emperor 

 of Brazil, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 

 France ; 

 And the five Arbitrators above named having assembled at Geneva, in Switz- 

 erland, in one of the Chambers of the Hotel de Ville, on the loth of December, 

 1871, in conformity with the terms of the Second Article of the Treaty of Wash- 

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



