¹ The text of the agreement is printed in the Supplement hereto, page 171.

² The Commission is to pass upon the following categories of claims more particularly denned in the treaty of August 25, 1921, and in the Treaty of Versailles: (a) Claims of American citizens, arising since July 31, 1914, in respect of damage to, or seizure of, their property, rights and interests, including any company or association in which they are interested, within German territory as it existed on August 1, 1914; (b) Other claims for loss or damage to which the United States or its nationals have been subjected with respect to injuries to persons, or to property, rights and interests, including any company or association in which American nationals are interested, since July 31, 1914,as a consequence of the war; (c) Debts owing to American citizens by the German Government or by German nationals.

³ Doubtless in the adjustment of certain classes of essentially public claims, and notably of those hardly capable of exact measurement or appraisal in pecuniary terms, and of large

⁴ 40 Stat. 411; also SUPPLEMENT to this JOURNAL, Vol. 12 (1918), p. 27.

⁵ Section 12.

⁶ U. S. Treaty Series, No. 658; also SUPPLEMENT to this JOURNAL, Jan. 1922 (Vol. 16),p. 10.

⁷ For an interesting discussion of the Claims Convention in the Senate, see, Congressional Record, Sept. 21, 1922, Vol. 62, No. 238, pages 14073-14093.