() TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO ARBITRATION. 



third, who shall not be a national of either Party, to be designated 

 by the Tribunal. This Commission shall examine into and report 

 their conclusions on any question or questions so referred to it by the 



Tribunal and such report shall be considered by the Tribunal and 

 shall, if incorporated by them in the award, be accepted as a part 

 thereof. 



Pending the report of the Commission upon the question or ques- 

 tions so referred and without awaiting such report, the Tribunal 

 may make a separate award upon all or any other questions before 

 it. and such separate award, if made, shall become immediately effect- 

 ive, provided that the report aforesaid shall not be incorporated in 

 the award until it has been considered by the Tribunal. The expenses 

 of such Commission shall be borne in equal moieties by the Parties 

 hereto. 



Article IV. 



The Tribunal shall recommend for the consideration of the High 

 Contracting Parties rules and a method of procedure under which 

 all questions which may arise in the future regarding the exercise of 

 the liberties above referred to may be determined in accordance with 

 the principles laid down in the award. If the High Contracting 

 Parties shall not adopt the rules and method of procedure so recom- 

 mended, or if they shall not, subsequently to the delivery of the 

 award, agree upon such rules and methods, then any differences which 

 may arise in the future between the High Contracting Parties relat- 

 ing to the interpretation of the treaty of 1818 or to the effect and 

 application of the award of the Tribunal shall be referred informally 

 to the Permanent Court at The Hague for decision by the summary 

 procedure provided in Chapter IV of The Hague Convention of the 

 18th of October, 1907. 



Article V. 



The Tribunal of Arbitration provided for herein shall be chosen 

 from the general list of members of the Permanent Court at The 

 Hague, in accordance with the provisions of Article XLV of the 

 Convention for the Settlement of International Disputes, concluded 

 at the Second Peace Conference at The Hague on the 18th of October, 

 1907. The provisions of said Convention, so far as applicable and not 

 inconsistent herewith, and excepting Articles LIII and LIV, shall 

 govern the proceedings under the submission herein provided for. 



The time allowed for the direct agreement of the President of the 

 United States and His Britannic Majesty on the composition of such 

 Tribunal shall be three months. 



Article VI. 



The pleadings shall be communicated in the order and within the 

 time following: 



As soon as may be and within a period not exceeding seven months 

 from the date of the exchange of notes making this agreement bind- 

 ing the printed case of each of the Parties hereto, accompanied by 

 printed copies of the documents, the official correspondence, and all 

 other evidence on which each Party relies, shall be delivered in du- 



