Mutual Claims Which Had Arisen Since the Treaty of Ghent. 9 SETTLEMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES Brazil American Schooner "John S. Bryan." Seized in the Province of Para, Brazil, in June, 1836. Commissioners appointed October 15, 1842, to determine amount of loss and damage suffered. Awarded the United States 26 contos of reis ($29,120). Diplomatic Settlement. Moore, V, 4613; Darby, 779. Brazilian Indemnity. Long outstanding pecuniary claims were settled, under convention of June 27, 1849, by the appropriation by Brazil of 530,000 milreis ($595,600). Diplomatic Set tlement. Moore, V, 4609; Malloy, 144; Darby, 896. Whaleship "Canada." Indemnity for loss of ship and cargo through interference of Brazilian officials in 1856. Settled by arbitration under protocol of March 14, 1870. Awarded United States $100,740.04. Arbitrator: Great Britain. Moore, II, 1733; V, 4687. Schooner "Macedonia." Chile Loss of silver bullion taken from ship by Chilean admiral in 1821. Settled by arbitration under convention of November 10, 1858. Awarded United States $42,400. Arbitrator: Belgium. Moore, II, 1449; V, 4689; Malloy, 183; La Fontaine, 35; Darby, 785; Brit. and For. St. Paps., vol. 49, p. 492. Whaleship "Good Return." Detention by Chilean authorities in 1832. Settled by payment of $20,000 to the United States in 1874. Diplomatic Settlement. Moore, II, 1466; Darby, 799; La Fontaine, 221. Mutual Claims. Arose out of Chilean wars of 1879-82 and 1890-91. Settled in 1894, by arbitration by a mixed commission under convention signed August 7, 1892. Awarded the United States $240,564.35. No award to Chile. The commission under the convention having failed, through limitation, to conclude its task, leaving certain claims duly presented to it unadjudicated, a new convention was signed May 24, 1897, to renew the convention of August 7, 1892. The claims commission appointed under the convention of 1897 awarded $28,062 gold, in favor of the United States and $3,000 gold in favor of Chile. Commissioners (both commissions): 1 United States, 1 Chile. Umpire: Switzerland. Moore, II, 1469; III, 2231; IV, 3255; V, 4691; Malloy, 185, 190; Darby, 820; For. Rels. U. S. (1888), I, 180; Martens, 2nd Series, XXII, 339; Brit. and For. St. Paps., vol. 84, p. 600; La Fontaine, 474. Alsop Claim. Breach of contract between Bolivia and Alsop Company doing business in what is now Chilean territory, but at that time Bolivian territory. Settled by arbitration in 1911, under agreement signed December 1, 1909. Awarded United States $906,666.78. Amiable Compositeur: Great Britain. Alsop Arbitration (Dep't of State); Am. J. Int. Law, V, 1079. Chinese Indemnity. China Destruction of property of American citizens in 1856. Settled under convention of November 8, 1858, China allotting the sum of $735,238.97. Award in favor of the United States only $489,187.95, but the Chinese Government refused to accept the surplus, which subsequently was used in payment of other established claims against the Chinese Government. Diplomatic Settle ments. Moore, V, 4627; Malloy, 232; Darby, 897; For. Rels. U. S. (1885), 183. Ashmore Fishery Claim. Dispossession of American citizen of a fishery in Chinese territory. Settled by arbitration May 24, 1884. |