§ MR. COLERIDGE KENNARDasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received advices from Her Majesty's Ministers at Washington, that the Court of Commission of Alabama (Surplus) Claims has decided that subjects of Great Britain residing in the United States have been embraced in the beneficial provisions of the Acts reestablishing the said Court on an equal 36 footing with all other residents and aliens; and, if so, whether the original award at Geneva embraced that class of petitioners?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, Mr. West has informed Her Majesty's Government that the Court of Commission of Alabama (Surplus) Claims has decided in the sense indicated in the hon. Member's Question. Under the Geneva Award, a gross sum of 15,500,000 dollars in gold was paid by Great Britain to the United States in satisfaction of all claims referred to the consideration of that tribunal, conformably to the provisions of the Article of the Treaty of Washington. No class of petitioners was specially mentioned in that Award.