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omit, decline, or from any cause cease to act as such Arbitrator, His Majesty 

 the King of Sweden and Norway smill be requested to name one or more per 

 sons, as the case may be, to act as such Arbitrator or Arbitrators. 



ARTICLE II. 



The Arbitrators shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest conven 

 ient day after they shall have been named, and shall proceed impartially and 

 carefully to examine and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on 

 the part of the Governments of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty re 

 spectively. All questions considered by the Tribunal, including the final award, 

 shall be decided by a majority of all the Arbitrators. 



Each of the High Contracting Parties shall also name one person to attend 

 tb.3 Tribunal as its agent to represent it generally in all matters connected with 

 the arbitration. 



ARTICLE IIL 



The written or printed case of each of the two Parties, accompanied by the 

 documents, the official correspondence, and other evidence on which each relies, 

 shall be delivered in duplicate to each of the Arbitrators and to the agent of 

 the other Party as soon as may be after the organization of the Tribunal, but 

 within a period not exceeding six months from the date of the exchange of the 

 ratifications of this Treaty. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Within four months after the delivery on both sides of the written or printed 

 case, either Party may, in like manner, deliver in duplicate to each of the said 

 Arbitrators, and to the agent of the other Party, a counter-case, and additional 

 documents, correspondence, and evidence, in reply to the case, documents, corre 

 spondence, and evidence so presented by the other Party. 



The Arbitrators may, however, extend the time for delivering such counter- 

 case, documents, correspondence, and evidence, when, in their judgment, it be 

 comes necessary, in consequence of the distance of the place from which the evi 

 dence to be presented is to be procured. 



If in the case submitted to the Arbitrators either Party shall have specified 

 or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession without an 

 nexing a copy, such Party shall be bound, if the other Party thinks proper to 

 apply for it, to furnish that Party with a copy thereof; and either Party may 

 call upon the other, through the Arbitrators, to produce the originals or certified 

 copies of any papers adduced as evidence, giving in each instance such reason 

 able notice as the Arbitrators may require. 



ARTICLE V. 



It shall be the duty of the agent of each Party, within two months after the 

 expiration of the time limited for the delivery of the counter-case on both sides, 



