96 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
tlement 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.” 
ARRANGEMENTS OF ARBITRATION. 
The appointment of Arbitrators took place in due 
course, and with the ready good-will of the three neu- 
tral Governments. ‘The United States appointed Mr. 
Charles Francis Adams; Great Britain appointed Sir 
Alexander Cockburn; the King of Italy named Count 
Frederic Sclopis; the President of the Swiss Confed- 
eration, Mr. Jacob Stempfli; and the Emperor of 
Brazil, the Baron d’Itajuba. 
Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis was 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 15th 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 
