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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. MAI 8, 1871. 863 Treaty between the United State: and Great Britain. Ctaims, Fisheries, May S, 1871. Navigation of the St. Lawrence, Qc.; American Lumber on the River St. W John; Boundary. Ooncluded May 8, 1871; Rahificatimzs exchanged June 17, 1871; Proclatmed July 4, 1871. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a treaty, between the United States of America and her Preamble. 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 crmmcuug desirous to provide for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference Plums: 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 Plenipotentiaries, 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 Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries, the Right Honourable 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 Majesys Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Noble Order of e Garter, etc., `etc.; the Right Honourable Sir Staiford Henry Northeote, Baronet, one of her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, etc., etc. ; Sir Edward Thornton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a member of her Majestyé Privy Council for Canada, and Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of her Majesty’s Dominion of Canada; and Mountague Bernard, Esquire, Chichele Professor of International 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 con— eluded the following articles : - ‘ Awrrcnm I. Whereas differences have arisen between the government of the United Alabama States and the government of her Britannic Majesty, and still exist, gjxgzistf growing out of the acts committed by the several vessels which have given mm, rise to the claims generically known as the "Alabama claims:” And whereas her Britannio Majesty has authorized her high commissioners and plenipotentiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt