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fied or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession, with 

 out annexing a copy, such Party shall be bound, if the other Party thinks prop 

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

 may call upon the other, through the Commissioners, to produce the originals 

 or certified copies of any papers adduced as evidence, giving in each instance 

 such reasonable notice as the Commissioners may require. 



The case on either side shall be closed within a period of six months from 

 the date of the organization of the Commission, and the Commissioners shall 

 be requested to give their award as soon as possible thereafter. The aforesaid 

 period of six months may be extended for three months in case of a vacancy oc 

 curring among the Commissioners under the circumstances contemplated in 

 Article XXIII. of this Treaty. 



ARTICLE XXV. 



The Commissioners shall keep an accurate record and correct minutes or 

 notes of all their proceedings, with the dates thereof, and may appoint and em 

 ploy a secretary, and any other necessary officer or officers, to assist them in the 

 transaction of the business which may come before ihem. 



Each of the High Contracting Parties shall pay its own Commissioner and 

 agent or counsel ; all other expenses shall be defrayed by the two Governments 

 in equal moieties. 



ARTICLE XXVI. 



The navigation of the Eiver St. Lawrence, ascending and descending, from 

 the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, where it ceases to form the boundary 

 between the two countries, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free 

 and open for the purposes of commerce to the citizens of the United States, sub 

 ject to any laws and regulations of Great Britain, or of the Dominion of Canada, 

 not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation. 



The navigation of the Rivers Yukon, Porcupine, and Stikine, ascending and 

 descending, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free and open for the 

 purposes of commerce to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty and to the cit 

 izens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of either country 

 within its own territory not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation. 



ARTICLE XXVII. 



The Government of Her Britannic Majesty engages to urge upon the Govern 

 ment of the Dominion of Canada to secure to the citizens of the United States 

 the use of the Welland, St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion on terms 

 of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion ; and the Government of the 

 United States engages that the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall enjoy 

 the use of the St. Clair Flats Canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants 

 of the United States, and further engages to urge upon the State Governments 



