APPENDIX. 
TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 
AND GREAT BRITAIN. 
Conctupep May 8, 1871; Ratirications ExcuaNnGEeD JUNE 17, 1871; 
ProciaimeD Jouxy 4, 1871. 
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 
Wuereas a Treaty, between the United States of America and Her Majesty 
the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, concerning the 
settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, was concluded 
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 difference between the two 
countries, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, that 
is to say: the President of the United States has appointed, 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 Privy 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 Member of Parliament, a Com- 
panion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, etc.,etc.; Sir Edward Thorn-. 
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