INTRODUCTION. 3 



behalf, the commercial privileges on the treaty coasts accorded by 

 agreement or otherwise to United States trading vessels generally ? 



Article 2. Either party may call the attention of the tribunal to 

 any legislative or executive act of the other party, specified within 

 three months of the exchange of notes enforcing this agreement, and 

 which is claimed to be inconsistent with the true interpretation of 

 the treaty of 1818, and may call upon the Tribunal to express 

 in its award its opinion upon such acts, and to point out in what 

 respects, if any, they are inconsistent with the principles laid down 

 in the award in reply to the preceding questions; and each party 

 agrees to conform to such opinion. 



Article five of the agreement provides for the constitution of a 

 Tribunal of Arbitration chosen from the general list of members of 

 the Permanent Court at The Hague in accordance with the provi- 

 sions of article forty-five of the convention for the settlement of 

 international disputes concluded at the second peace conference at 

 The Hague on the 18th October, 1907. 



Article eleven provides that the agreement shall be deemed to be 

 binding only when confirmed by the two Governments by an ex- 

 change of notes. 



The agreement was duly confirmed on the 4th March, 1909, and 

 the present Tribunal has been constituted in accordance with 

 4 the provisions of article five. The full text of the agreement 



is set out in the appendix to this case. 



In accordance with the provisions of article two (App., p. 2) 

 notices were served by both parties, and these will be found in the 

 appendix. 



The accompanying Case, together with the documents, official cor- 

 respondence, maps, and other evidence on which the Government of 

 Great Britain relies contained in the appendices, is delivered pur- 

 suant to article six of the agreement. 





