20 TREAT!" PROVISIONS RELATING TO ARBITRATION. 



Article LXXVL 



For all notices which the Tribunal has to serve in the territory of a 

 third Contracting Power, the Tribunal shall apply direct to the Gov- 

 ernment of thai Power. The same rule applies in the case of steps 

 being taken to procure evidence on the spot. 



The requests for this purpose arc to be executed as far as the means 

 at the disposal of the Power applied to under its municipal law allow. 

 They cannot be rejected unless the Power in question considers them 

 calculated to impair its own sovereign rights or its safety. 



The Court will equally be always entitled to act through the Power 

 on whose territory it sits. 



Article LXXVII. 



"When the agents and counsel of the parties have submitted all the 

 explanations and evidence in support of their case the President shall 

 declare the discussion closed. 



Article LXXVIII. 



The Tribunal considers its decisions in private and the proceedings 

 remain secret. 



All questions are decided by a majority of the members of the 

 Tribunal. 



Article LXXIX. 



The Award must give the reasons on which it is based. It con- 

 tains the names of the Arbitrators; it is signed by the President and 

 Registrar or by the Secretary acting as Registrar. 



Article LXXX. 



The Award is read out in public sitting, the agents and counsel 

 of the parties being present or duly summoned to attend. 



Article LXXXI. 



The Award, duly pronounced and notified to the agents of the par- 

 ties, settles the dispute definitively and without appeal. 



Article LXXXII. 



Any dispute arising between the parties as to the interpretation 

 and execution of the Award shall, in the absence of an Agreement 

 to the contrary, be submitted to the Tribunal which pronounced it. 



Article LXXXIII. 



The parties can reserve in the " Compromis " the right to demand 

 the revision of the Award. 



In this case and unless there be an Agreement to the contrary, the 

 demand must be addressed to the Tribunal which pronounced the 



