92, THE TREATY OF WASHINGT 
the said claims, growing out of acts committed by the 
aforesaid vessels, and generically known as the A/a- 
bama Claims, shall be referred to a Tribunal of Ar. 
bitration to be composed of, five Arbitrators, appoint- 
ed in the following manner,—namely, one by the Pres- 
ident of the United States, and one by the Queen of 
the United Kingdom, with request to the King of 
Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and 
the Emperor of Brazil, each to name an Arbitrator ; 
and, on the omission of either of those personages to 
act, then with a like request to the King of Sweden 
and Norway. 
The Treaty further provides that the Arbitrators 
shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest 
convenient day after they shall have been named, and 
shall proceed impartially and carefully to examine 
and decide all questions which shall be laid before 
them on the part of either Government. 
In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitra- 
tors, it is provided that they shall be governed by 
certain rules, which are agreed upon by the parties as 
rules to be taken as applicable to the case, and by 
such principles of international law, not inconsistent 
therewith, as the Arbitrators shall determine to have 
been applicable to the case, which rules are as. fol- 
lows: 
“ A neutral Government is bound— 
“First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arm- 
ing, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it 
has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to 
carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace: and 
also to use like diligencé to prevent the departure from its ju- 
