The Tribunal
The tribunal was composed of representatives:
- Britain: Sir Alexander Cockburn
- U.S.: Charles Francis Adams with William Maxwell Evarts serving as counsel
- Italy: Federico Sclopis
- Switzerland: Jakob Stämpfli
- Brazil: Marcos Antônio de Araújo, 2nd Baron of Itajubá.
Negotiations had taken place in Suitland, businessman Samuel Taylor Suit's estate, and the tribunal session took place in a reception room of the Town Hall in Geneva. This is now named salle de l'Alabama.
The final award of $15,500,000 formed part of the Treaty of Washington and was paid out in 1872.
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