teen men at $20 each per month; and we calculate one additional man at $20 per month for every fifteen tons in excess of 300 tons.

In the statements relative to the vessels designated under letter A, there is, in the annexed tables, a calculation of wages which exceeds the correct sum of $120 per month for each vessel. The error is corrected at the end of the respective columns of each table, and the sum total is finally stated correctly. The error was not discovered in season to correct it in the detailed statements, without again subjecting the Tribunal to the inconvenience of a delay.

For each vessel of classes B, C, D, E, and F, whose burden did not exceed 300 tons, we calculate one captain at $150 per month; one first officer at $100 per month; one second officer at $75 per month; and ten men at $20 each per month. For every additional 30 tons we calculate an additional man at $20 per month.

The wages are calculated, except in certain specified cases, from the commencement of the voyage up to the time of the capture, and when the capture took place in the Atlantic Ocean, or when the capture of a vessel whose owner resided on the Pacific coast took place in the Pacific Ocean, they are calculated for six months additional; for nine months additional when the owner resided on the Atlantic coast, and the capture took place in the Pacific Ocean. This additional sum is to pay the expenses of the return after the capture, and of the time passed on the

way.

(B.) In some cases the officers or men have presented claims for the value of their personal effects. We have submitted no claim for such persons in the general table under the name of each vessel. When no special claim is presented we submit a general claim, according to the following estimate, viz, for each captain $1,000; for each first officer, $750; for each second officer, $500; for each third and each fourth of ficer, $250; and for each helmsman and each seaman $100; we consider these estimates moderate.

It remains for us to explain the annexed tables. The detailed tables contain six columns, numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Column 1 contains the items which form the sum total of the claims under the name of each vessel captured. We give the name of each vessel captured, its burden and the claims which were presented in its behalf on the 15th of April. We add a statement of the sums which must be subtracted from the sum total, and of those which must be added to it, according to the rules which we have established. Column 2 shows the said sum total, without the "prospective catch," the "expected profits," or the "breaking up of the voyage." It embraces the sums which are detailed in columns 3, 4, and 5. Column 3 shows the claims for insurance which are undoubtedly not double claims. Column 4 shows certain claims for insurance, in regard to which the evidence is silent. It is possible that some of these should be deducted from the sum total of column 2 ; this can only be determined by an examination of the facts in each case. Column 5 shows still other claims for insurance, according to which the owners of the property insured claim, at the same time, full indemnity for their losses, without regard to the insurance embraced in this column. It is for the tribunal to decide whether these claims should or should not be deducted from column 2. Column 6 contains remarks.

The decisions rendered by the tribunal, in relation to the Georgia, Sumter, Chickamauga, Tallahassee, Retribution, &c., have necessitated a modification of the certificates of the Navy Department of the United States, touching the national claims, which certificates were pro

duced according to the provisions of the protocol accompanying the treaty of Washington. (American Memorial, French text, page 3.)

In the annexed tables this modification has been made by deducting. from the sum total, submitted December 15, 1871, the expenses caused by the acts of vessels for the acts of which the Tribunal has decided that it could not hold Great Britain responsible.

The summing up shows the sum total of the claims now submitted on the part of the United States, including the "prospective catch," and the sums total embraced in the classified British estimates submitted in the Counter Memorial and in the Argument of Great Britain.