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The Eight Honourable William Snowdon Robson thereupon made 

 some further observations in regard to new evidence introduced by 

 the Honourable Elihu Root. 



The President then spoke as follows: 



Gentlemen : There is a noble custom prevailing among the Mem- 

 bers of the bar in Anglo-Saxon countries to address one another as 

 friends, even if they represent the adverse parties of a litigation. So 

 Counsel on one side and on the other have done in this international 

 proceeding. 



So much the more it may be my privilege, in the name of the 

 Tribunal, to address Counsel on both sides as our friends and to 

 thank you for all the friendly assistance you have lent us during 

 these weeks and months. You have led us through the maze of a 

 hundred years of diplomatic correspondence, through the jungle of 

 entangled statutes, through the dark forest of almost metaphysical 

 problems, in which it was sometimes difficult to see our path, up to the 

 summit of the mountain, where we hope we may see the problem we 

 have to deal with in the light of truth and of justice. 



I thank you all for the most valuable assistance we have had from 

 your speeches, for the courtesy you have shown us and especially for 

 the courtesy you have shown to one another. I am sure that the 

 chivalrous spirit in which you have treated the grave controversies 

 existing between your countries will facilitate us to come to a just 



and happy solution of them. 

 102 It is with regret that we take leave of you, who have been 



our friends and our guides in this long and sometimes laborious 

 journey. 



I beg the Agents of both Parties as well as the Secretary General 

 and his Colleagues to accept the preliminary expression of our thanks, 

 preliminary, as we shall apply to their assistance still for some time 

 in our future work. 



I also consider it my duty, before leaving, to thank the gentlemen 

 who have their places immediately before me — and I desire to have 

 their names on the record: !Mr. Xelson R. Butcher, ^Ir. F. R. Hanna. 

 Mr. Geo. Simpson, Mr. G. van Casteel and Mr. John W. Hulse — and 

 their assistants for the accuracy, intelligence and punctuality with 

 which they have reported the case. 



The day of the next meeting for publication of the Award will be 

 communicated to the Agents and Counsel of the Parties at least 4 

 days in advance. 



I declare the discussion closed : the Tribunal adjourns sine die. 



Done at The Hague, August 12th, 1910. 

 The President: 



Lammasch. 

 The Secretary general: 



MiCHIELS VAN VeRDUTNEN. 



The Secretaries: 



ROELL. 



Charles D. "White. 

 George Young. 



