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Board be appointed, as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all the claims 
hereinbefore referred to; and further engage that every such claim, whether 
the same may or may ae have been presented to the notice of, made, prefer- 
red, 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 fi- 
nally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible. 
Anrticte XII. 
The High Contracting Parties agree that all claims on the part of corpora- 
tions, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the 
Government of Her Britannic Majesty, arising out of acts committed against 
the persons or property of citizens of the United States during the period be- 
tween the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the ninth 
of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, inclusive, not being claims growing 
out of the acts of the vessels referred to in Article I. of this Treaty, and all 
claims, with the like exception, on the part of corporations, companies, or pri- 
vate individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of 
the United States, arising out of acts committed against the persons or prop- 
erty of subjects of Her Britannic Majesty during the same period, which may 
have been presented to either Government for its interposition with the other, 
and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be 
presented within the time specified in Article XIV. of this Treaty, shall be re- 
ferred to three Cqmmissioners, to be appointed in the following manner, that is 
to say: One Commissioner shall be named by the President of the United 
States, one by Her Britannic Majesty, and a third by the President of the 
United States and Her Britannic Majesty conjointly ; and in case the third 
Commissioner shall not have been so named within a period of three months 
from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, then the 
third Commissioner shall be named by the Representative at Washington 
of His Majesty the King of Spain. In case of the death, absence, or inca- 
pacity of any Commissioner, or in the event of any Commissioner omitting 
or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore pro- 
vided for making the original appointment; the period of three months in case 
of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the 
vacancy. 
The Commissioners so named shall meet at Washington at the earliest con- 
venient period after they have been respectively named; and shall, before pro- 
ceeding to any business, make and subscribe a eleran: declaration that they 
will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, 
and according to justice and equity, all such claims as shall be laid before them 
on the part of the Governments of the United States and of Her Britannic Maj- 
esty, respectively ; and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their 
proceedings, 
