THE DECISION AND AWARD. ons 
DECISION AND AWARD 
Made by the Tribunal of Arbitration coystituted by virtue of the first Article 
of the Treaty concluded at Washington the 8th of May, 1871, between Her 
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
and the United States of America. 
Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America having agreed by 
Article I. of the Treaty concluded and signed at Washington the 8th of May, 
1871, to refer all the claims ‘‘ generically known as the Alabama Claims” to a 
Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed of five Arbitrators, named : 
One by Her Britannic Majesty, 
One by the President of the United States, 
One by His Majesty the King of Italy, 
One by the President of the Swiss Confederation, 
One by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil ; 
and 
Her Britannic Majesty, the President of the United States, H. M. the King 
of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and H. M. the Emperor 
of Brazil} having respectively named their Arbitrators, to wit: 
Her Britannic Majesty : 
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Baronet, a Member of Her Maj- 
esty’s Privy Council, Lord Chief Justice of England ; 
The President of the United States: 
Charles Francis Adams, Esquire ; 
His Majesty the King of Italy : 
His Excellency Count Frederic Sclopis of Salerano, a Knight of the Order 
of the Annunciata, Minister of State, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy ; 
The President of the Swiss Confederation : 
Mr. James Stampfli ; 
His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil : 
His Excellency Marcos Antonio d@’Araujo, Viscount of Tiajubs, a Grandee 
of the Empire of Brazil, Member of the Council of H. M. the Emperor 
of Brazil, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 
France; _ , 
And the five Arbitrators above named having assembled at Geneva, in Switz- 
erland, in one of the Chambers of the Hotel de Ville, on the 15th of December, 
1871, in conformity with the terms of the Second Article of the Treaty of Wash- 
ington of the 8th of May of that year, and having proceeded to the inspection 
