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and by Her Britannic Majesty ; and the ratifications shall be exchanged either 
at Washington or at London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier 
if possible. 
In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Treaty 
and have hereunto affixed our seals. 
Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. 
[z. s.] Hamitton Fisu. 
[z. 8.] Rozr. C. ScHENcK. 
[z. 8.] SamurL NELson. 
[u. s.] Exsenezer Rockwoop Hoar. 
[z. s.J : Geo. H. WIt11aMs. 
[t. s8.] ; De Grey & Ripon. 
[z. s.] ‘Srarrorp H. Norrucore. 
[u. s.] Epwp. THornrTon. 
{z. s.J Joun A, Macponarp. 
[z. s.] Mountacue BERNARD. 
And whereas the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the 
respective ratifications of the same were exchanged in the city of London, on 
the seventeenth day of June, 1871, by Robert C. Schenck, Envoy Extraordinary 
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and Earl Granville, Her 
Majesty’s Principal Secrethry of State for Foreign Affairs, on the part of their 
respective Governments : 
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Urysses S. Grant, President of the 
United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be ‘made public, to 
the end that the same, and every clause and ‘article thereof, may be observed 
and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the 
United States to be affixed. 
Done at the City of Washington this fourth day of July, in the year of our 
rhetoe, 4 Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and of the Inde- 
pendence of the United States the ninety-sixth. 
U.S. Grant. 
By the President : 
Hamitton Fisu, 
Secretary of State. 
