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TABLE NO. 3.-Showing, under respective Divisions of Classes, Interests, and Cruisers, the Claims advanced under the "Revised Statement," (after adjusting the several errors named at pp. 4 and 5 of this Report,) together with the Allowances which we deem adequate to meet them. The said Claims and Allowances being those collectively arranged under our First Report on the "Former Statement," as adjusted under the respective Summaries of Table II, and under this Report on the "Addition to the Claims" of the "Former Statement" as advanced in the "Revised Statement." (See Table 2, p. 343.)

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"First Report," as amended under Table II. P. R. (Present Report) means the corrected amount of Claims, as per "Revised Statement," additional to those of the "Former Statement," (as per analysis of Classes, p. 338, P. R.)

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TABLE IV.-Showing the vessels captured by the Alabama, ranged under the respective Classes; the Valuation the Captors placed upon each Vessel: the Allowance we have found to be adequate to compensate the Sum of the Losses in each Class; and, further, the progressive Claims advanced for these Vessels by the United States Government, at the several Periods alluded to at p. 316 of this Report.

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1 This is the claim alluded to at p. 318 as being made in the former statement in currency and in the revised statement in gold. In the latter form it will be seen it was first presented to the United States Senate in 1869.

ANNEX D.-FURTHER NOTE ON THE CLAIMS PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR EXPENDITURE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN INCURRED IN THE PURSUIT AND CAPTURE OF CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

EFFORTS MADE TO CAPTURE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

ALABAMA.

The United States in their Counter Case, while denying the pertinence of the point to the questions at issue, reiterate the assertion that they "made great efforts and incurred great expense in their efforts to capture the Alabama."

It is not proposed in this paper to do more than make a passing reference to the cases which the British Government considers point to an opposite conclusion, and which have been fully discussed in its Case and Counter Case:

(a.) The Tuscarora's remissness in not following up the Alabama after getting away from Liverpool.

(b.) The escape of the Alabama from the San Jacinto at Martinique, on 16th November, 1862.

(c.) Commodore Bell's remissness in not capturing her after she sunk the Hatteras off Galveston.

(d.) Admiral Wilkes's interference with the Secretary of the Navy's orders to the Vanderbilt; the failure of the captain of that ship to carry out the orders implicitly when allowed to proceed in their execution, and his final abandonment of the pursuit at the Cape of Good Hope.

The question now to be considered is, did the United States Government, with the means at its disposal, use "due diligence" in its efforts to arrest the career of the Alabama?

Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the United States Navy, in his first Report to Congress after the commissioning of the Alabama, of 1st December, 1862, stated that his department had "dispatched vessels to effect the capture of the Alabama, and there is now quite a fleet on the ocean engaged in pursuing her." (Page 24.)

Now, on referring to the claims put forth against Great Britain, in Volume VII of the Appendices to the United States Case, and comparing the several dates, we find this "fleet" is stated to have consisted of

1. The Tuscarora, a suitable ship for the service, which was ordered on the "5th September, 1862, to go to the West Indies in search of the Alabama and Florida."1

1 For the various orders given to these vessels, and alluded to in the course of this Annex, see the Synopsis of Orders given in the Appendix to the Case of the United States, vol. vii, opposite to page 120.

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