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ton, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Her Majes- 
ty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States 
of America; Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Knight Commander of the Most 
Honorable Order of the Bath, 1 member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council for 
Canada, and Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Her Majesty’s Do- 
minion of Canada; and Mountague Bernard, Esquire, Chichele Professor of In- 
ternational Law in the University of Oxford. 
And the said Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers, which 
were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the 
following articles : 
AnrticLe I. 
Whereas differences have arisen between the Government of the United States 
and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, and still exist, growing out of 
the acts committed by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims 
generically known as the ‘‘Adabama Claims :” 
And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners 
and Plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt by Her Maj- 
esty’s Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Ala- 
bama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed 
by those vessels : , 
Now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part 
of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims, 
which are not admitted by Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, the High Con- 
tracting Parties agree that all the said claims, growing out of acts committed 
by the aforesaid vessels and generically known as the ‘‘Alabama Claims,” shall 
be referred to a Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed of five Arbitrators, to be 
appointed in the following manner, that is to say: One shall be named by the 
President of the United States; one shall be named by Her Britannic Majesty ; 
His Majesty the King of Italy shall be requested to name one; the President 
of the Swiss Confederation shall be requested to name one; and His Majesty the 
Emperor of Brazil shall be requested to name one. 
In case of the death, absence, or incapacity to serve of any or either of the 
said Arbitrators, or, in the event of either of the said Arbitrators omitting or 
declining or ceasing to act as such, the President of the United States, or Her 
Britannic Majesty, or His Majesty the King of Italy, or the President of the Swiss 
Confederation, or His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, as the case may be, may 
forthwith name another person to act as Arbitrator in the place and stead of 
the Arbitrator originally named by such Head of a State. 
* And in the event of the refusal or omission for two months after receipt of the 
request from either of the High Contracting Parties of His Majesty the King 
of Italy, or the President of the Swiss Confederation, or His Majesty the Em- 
peror of Brazil, to name an Arbitrator either to fill the original appointment or 
in the place of one who may have died, be absent, or incapacitated, or who may 
