such additional rules, however, shall be communicated by the one Department to the other.

XXIX. The present arrangement shall take effect on the 1st October, 1875. It shall then continue in force until one year after the date at which one of the Contracting Parties shall have notified the other of its intention to terminate it.

Executed in duplicate and signed: at London, the 17th of June, 1875; at Berne, the 1st of June, 1875.

(L.S.) A. M. MONTEATH. (L.S.) EUGENE BOREL.

I TRANSMIT to you herewith a list bearing the above-mentioned number and date, containing a detailed statement of Money Orders payable by your Department, and also of void Orders, and of Money Orders drawn by your Department and now authorized to be repaid to the remitters.

2. The number and date of the list in which the Order referred to was originally entered; and,

3. The entry number under which it was entered in the list.

Annexed is a memorandum, showing how the applications received from you up to date have been disposed of; those entered as "not yet disposed of" will continue to be quoted in future letters until they are disposed of. Since the despatch of my last list I have received your list No. dated which was found to be correct, with the exception noted

below.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient servant,

To the Controller, Money Order Exchange Office,

or to the Controller, Money Order Office, Bombay.

LIST of Money Orders drawn in Switzerland upon India.

Particulars to be furnished by the Swiss Office.

For the use of the Bombay Office.

N.B.-Void Orders entered in this List should be distinguished by the word "void" added opposite the number in Column I.

B.

Quarterly Account of Money Order Exchanges between Switzerland and India, prepared by the Swiss Office of Exchange, for the Quarter

AWARD of the Arbitrator (Mr. Robert Bunch) on Claims of the United States against Colombia, for Damages resulting from the Capture and Detention of the American Steamer Montijo, in April, 1871.-Bogotá, July 26, 1875.

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IN virtue of a Convention between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia, dated the 17th of August, 1874, it was agreed that there should be submitted to a tribunal of arbitration the final resolution and decision of a claim which had been preferred by the first-named Republic against the latter for damages accruing from the occupation, in the months of April and May, 1871, in the waters of the State of Panamá, of the American steamer Montijo.

That tribunal was duly constituted in the city of Bogotá, and consists of Señor Mariano Tanco, as Arbitrator on the part of the United States of Colombia, of Mr. Bendix Koppel, as Arbitrator on the part of the United States of America, and of the Undersigned, Mr. Robert Bunch, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister Resident to the United States of Colombia, as final Referee or Umpire.

After due examination of the facts and the emission of written opinions by Messrs. Tanco and Koppel, it was found that an entire discrepancy existed between these gentlemen, for which reason the question has been laid before the Undersigned for a final decision, which he proceeds to give in the following manner and terms. The Undersigned will begin by enumerating the

Points on which both Arbitrators seem to be agreed.

1. The Montijo was a steamer built and registered in New York but put together in Panamá, in the year 1867. She was owned by Messrs. Schuber Brothers, citizens of the United States, residing and doing business for many years in the city of Panamá.

Her papers were always in the custody of the Consul of the United States in Panamá.

2. That from 1867 to the date of seizure in 1871 she was trading under the American flag, in the Pacific; generally between the city of Panamá and the town of David and intermediate ports of the State, but also between Panamá and Buenaventura, and even between Panamá and certain ports of Peru and the Ecuador.

3. That during the period between 1869 and 1871 the Montijo was engaged in the trade between the city of Panamá and the town of David and intermediate ports as aforesaid, under a contract with the Government of the State of Panamá dated December 15, 1869,

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