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Description and Holding Information
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1956 U.S./G.B., Rpt. of Mixed Comm. on Priv. Claims, 1956 (G.B.)
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Report of the proceedings of the Mixed Commission on Private Claims, established under the convention between Great Britain and the United States of
America, of the 8th February, 1853; With the judgments of the commissioners and the umpire; Compiled from the original by Edward Hornby, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law and commissioner on the part of Great Britain: ed. by E. Hornby, ix+(3)+4-485, London, pr. by Harrison & Sons, 1856. (This commission was
set up by the two governments with the goal of bringing resolution to a large number of private disputes between their several citizens that had
accumulated during the nearly four decades between the U.S./U.K. Treaty of Peace in 1814 and the year 1853. The long list of cases to which resolution was
brought by 1856 appears on pp. iii-ix. Commissioner Hornby states on the page following p. ix, that he believed that the official Journal of the
Proceedings of the Commission suffered from certain inaccuracies and omissions. Thus he concludes that the American copy, presented to the American
Government by his U.S. counterpart, Mr. Nathaniel G. Upham, Jr., differed in important respects from his edition; explaing his independent effort. The
commissioners initially exercised their right to appoint the “neutral umpire” of the arbitration by agreeing upon former American president Martin Van Buren,
in office 1837-41. Van Buren declining to accept the appointment, their choice then fell on Joshua Bates, a prominent member of the American law
firm Baring Brothers & Company.)
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Title:
Report of the proceedings of the Mixed Commission on Private Claims : established under the convention between Great Britain and the United States of America, of the 8th February, 1853 ; with the judgments of the commissioners and umpire / compiled from the original by Edmund Hornby.
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OCLC Number:
717107499
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | Yes |
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