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shall not adopt the rules and method of procedure so recommended, 

 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 relating 

 9 to the interpretation of the Treaty of 1818 or to the effect and 



application of the award of the Tribunal shall be referred in- 

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

 summary procedure provided in Chapter IV of The Hague Conven- 

 tion of the 18th 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 His Britannic Maj- 

 esty and the President of the United States on the composition of 

 such Tribunal shall be three months. 



Ariicle 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 

 duplicate (with such additional copies as may be agreed upon) to 

 the agent of the other Party. It shall be sufficient for this purpose 

 if such case is delivered at the British Embassy at Washington or 

 at the American Embassy at London, as the case may be, for trans- 

 mission to the agent for its Government. 



Within fifteen days thereafter such printed case and accompanying 

 evidence of each of the Parties shall be delivered in duplicate to each 

 member of the Tribunal, and such delivery may be made by deposit- 

 ing within the stated period the necessary number of copies with the 

 International Bureau at The Hague for transmission to the 

 Arbitrators. 



After the delivery on both sides of such printed case, either Party 

 may, in like manner, and within four months after the expiration of 

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