§ MR. HOLTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to Cotton Claims under the Treaty of Washington, 1871, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to issue any regulations to govern proceedings by British merchants in support of their claims to compensation on account of property injured or destroyed in the late Civil War, or any notice specifying the time when such claims are to be preferred?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, notice will be issued in a few days for all British claimants to transmit to such person as shall be appointed to receive them, and of whose appointment notice will be given, particulars of their claims and evidence in support thereof. A further notice will be published when the Commissioners are appointed to produce their claims and evidence within six months. These notices will be as nearly as possible identical with those issued with reference to the Convention of 1853 with the United States.