طرفهای متعاهد توافق میکنند که کلیه دعاوی اشخاص حقوقی، شرکتها یا افراد حقیقیِ تبعه ایالات متحده علیه دولت علیاحضرت ملکه بریتانیا — که ناشی از اقداماتی علیه جان یا اموال اتباع ایالات متحده در فاصله زمانی سیزدهم آوریل ۱۸۶۱ تا نهم آوریل ۱۸۶۵ (شامل هر دو تاریخ) بوده و جزو دعاوی ناشی از عملکرد کشتیهای مذکور در ماده ۱ این معاهده نباشند — و همچنین کلیه دعاوی (با همان استثنای پیشگفته) اشخاص حقوقی، شرکتها یا افراد حقیقیِ تبعه علیاحضرت ملکه بریتانیا علیه دولت ایالات متحده — که ناشی از اقداماتی علیه جان یا اموال اتباع علیاحضرت ملکه بریتانیا در همان دوره زمانی بوده و قبلاً جهت میانجیگری نزد یکی از دولتها مطرح شده و همچنان حلوفصلنشده باقی ماندهاند، و نیز هرگونه دعوای مشابه دیگری که ممکن است در مهلت مقرر در ماده ۱۴ این معاهده مطرح شود، به سه کمیسر ارجاع گردد که به شیوه زیر تعیین میشوند: یک کمیسر توسط رئیسجمهور ایالات متحده، یک کمیسر توسط علیاحضرت ملکه بریتانیا، و کمیسر سوم بهطور مشترک توسط رئیسجمهور ایالات متحده و علیاحضرت ملکه بریتانیا منصوب خواهند شد؛
The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the government of Her Britannic Majesty, arising out of acts committed against the persons or property of citizens of the United States during the period between the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, inclusive, not being claims growing out of the acts of the vessels referred to in Article I of this treaty, and all claims, with the like exception, on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of the United States, arising out of acts committed against the persons or property of subjects of Her Britannic Majesty during the same period, which may have been presented to either government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within the time specified in Article XIV of this treaty, shall be referred to three commissioners, to be appointed in the following manner, that is to say: One commissioner shall be named by the President of the United States, one by Her Britannic Majesty, and a third by the President of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty conjointly; and in case the third commissioner shall not have been so named within a period of three months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, then the third commissioner shall be named by the representative at Washington of His Majesty the King of Spain. In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or in the event of any commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall, be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy. The commissioners so named shall meet at Washington at the earliest convenient period after they have been respectively named, and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment and according to justice and equity, all such claims as shall be laid before them on the part of the governments of the United States and of Her Britannic Majesty, respectively; and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings. Article XIII.