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Award. It can only be made on the ground of the discovery of some 

 new fact calculated to exercise a decisive influence upon the Award 

 and which was unknown to the Tribunal and to the party which 

 demanded the revision at the time the discussion was closed. 



Proceedings for revision can only be instituted by a decision of the 

 Tribunal expressly recording the existence of the new fact, recogniz- 

 ing in it the character described in the preceding paragraph, and 

 declaring the demand admissible on this ground. 



The " Compromis " fixes the period within which the demand for 

 revision must be made. 



Article LXXXIV. 



The Award is not binding except on the parties in dispute. 



When it concerns the interpretation of a Convention to which 

 Powers other than those in dispute are parties, they shall inform all 

 the Signatory Powers in good time. Each of these Powers is en- 

 titled to intervene in the case. If one or more avail themselves of 

 this right, the interpretation contained in the A^ard is equally bind- 

 ing on them. 



Article LXXXV. 



Each party pays its own expenses and an equal share of the ex- 

 penses of the Tribunal. 



Chapter IV. — Arbitration by Summary Procedure. 



Article LXXXVI. 



With a view to facilitating the working of the sj^stem of arbitration 

 in disputes admitting of a summary procedure, the Contracting Pow- 

 er- adopt the following rules, which shall be observed in the absence 

 of other arrangements and subject to the reservation that the pro- 

 visions of Chapter III apply so far as may be. 



Ann. u: LXXXVII. 



Each of the parties in dispute appoints an Arbitrator. The two 

 Arbitrators thus selected choose an Umpire. If they do not agree on 

 this point, each of them proposes two candidates taken from the gen- 

 eral list of the members of the Permanent Court exclusive of the 

 members appointed by either of the parties and not being nationals 

 of either 01 them; which of the candidates thus proposed shall be the 

 Cmpire i.- determined by lot. 



The Umpire presides over the Tribunal, which gives its decisions 

 by a majority of yote 



Abtcclb Lxxxvm. 



In the absence of any previous agreement the Tribunal, as soon as 

 it i formed, settles the time within which the two parties must sub- 

 mit their re pect Lve cases bo it. 



