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with the principles laid down in the Award. If the High Contract- 

 ing Parties shall not adopt the rules and method of procedure so 

 recommended, or if they shall not, subsequently to the delivery of the 

 Award, agree ujjon such rules and methods, then any differences 

 which may arise in the future between the High Contracting Parties 

 relating to the interpretation of the Treaty of 1818 or to the effect 

 and api^lication of the Award of the Tribunal shall be referred 

 informally to the Permanent Court at The Hague for decision by 

 the summary procedure proAdded in Chapter IV of The Hague Con- 

 vention 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 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 

 Majesty and the President of the United States on the composition 

 of such Tribunal shall be three months. 



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Article 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 dupli- 

 cate (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 Ameri- 

 can Embassy at London, as the case may be, for transmission to the 

 agent for its Government. 



Within fifteen days thereafter such printed case and accom- 

 107 panying evidence of each of the Parties shall be delivered in 

 duplicate to each member of the Tribunal, and such delivery 

 may be made by depositing within the stated period the necessary 

 number of copies with the International Bureau at The Hague for 

 transmission to the Arbitrators. 



