An Act Re Establishing The Court Of Commissioners Of Alabama Claims And For The Distribution Of The Unappropriate Moneys Of The Geneva Award

Author : Frank W. Hackett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528509169
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Geneva Award Acts written by Frank W. Hackett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Geneva Award Acts: With Notes, and References to Decisions of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims IN the following pages I have sought to bring under review the legislation of Congress known as The Geneva. Award Acts. These are the acts approved, respectively, June 23, 1874, and June 5, 1882. Great Britain, it will be recalled, paid the United States, Sep tember 13, 1873, at Washington, the sum of gold, in conformity with the terms of the award. Our government invested this sum in five per cent registered bonds of the United States. Instead of entrusting the distribution of the fund to a mere com mission, Congress, in 1874, created a tribunal, the Court of Com missioners of Alabama Claims, composed of five judges. They were empowered to receive, examine, and give judgment for claims directly resulting from damage caused by the Alabama, the Florida (and their tenders), and by the Shenandoah after leaving Melbourne, February 18, 1865. These vessels were called inculpated cruisers, from the fact that for their presence on the ocean Great Britain had been held responsible. The privileges of the act were also extended to insurers whose losses during the rebellion from war risks exceeded what they had gained from that source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.