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risdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as 

 above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or 

 in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use. 



" Secondly, not to permit or sufter either belligerent to make 

 nse of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against 

 the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation 

 of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. 



" Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and wa- 

 ters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent 

 any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties." 



Great Britain, it is added in tlie Treaty by Avay of 

 explanation, can not assent to the foregoing rules as 

 a statement of principles of international law whicli 

 were actually in force at the time when the claims in 

 question arose ; but, in order to evince her desire of 

 strengthening the friendly relations between the two 

 countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the 

 future, she agrees that, in deciding the questions aris- 

 ing out of such claims, the Arbitrators should assume 

 that she had undertaken to act upon the priuci23les 

 set forth in these rules. 



And the Parties proceed to stipulate to observe 

 these rules as between themselves in the future, and 

 to bring them to the knowledge of other maritime 

 Powers, and to invite the latter to accede thereto. 



In respect of procedure, the Treaty provides that 

 each of the two Parties shall name one person to at- 

 tend the Tribunal~as its agent or representative; 

 that the written or printed case of each of the two 

 Parties, accompanied by the documents, the official 

 correspondence, and other evidence on which each 

 relies, shall be delivered in duplicate to each of the 



