“ The effects of a violation of neutrality committed by means of the construction, equipment, and armament of a vessel are not done away with by any commission which the Government of the belligerent power benefited by the violation of neutrality may afterwards have granted to that vessel ”

“ WASHINGTON, Treaty of. A treaty concluded in 1871 between the United States and Great Britain for settling various differences between the two governments, but chiefly those with regard to the Alabama claims (q.v.) . In the beginning of 1871 the British Government sent Sir John Rose to the United States to ascertain whether negotiations looking toward the settlement of the question in dispute would be acceptable to the President. ”