Washington Treaty (Claims) Act 1875
WHEREAS a treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America was signed at Washington on the eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and was duly ratified on the seventeenth day of June of that year: And whereas it was provided by that treaty (in this Act referred to as the Washington Treaty of 1871), among other things, that certain claims therein mentioned on the part of British subjects upon the Government of the United States should be referred to three Comm...