54 ALASKA. 



Article II. 



The arbitrators shall meet at Paris within twenty days after the delivery of 

 the counter cases mentioned in Article IV, and shall proceed impartially and 

 carefully to examine and decide the questions that have been or shall be laid 

 before them as herein provided on the part of the Governments of the United 

 States and Her Britannic Majesty respectively. All questions considered by the 

 tribunal, including the final decision, shall be determined by a majority of all 

 the arbitrators. 



Each of the High Contracting Parties shall also name one person to attend 

 the tribunal as its agent to represent it generally in all matters connected with 

 the arbitration. 



Article III. 



The 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 arbitrators and to the agent oi the other 

 party as soon as mav be after the appointment of the members of the tribunal, 

 but within a period not exceeding four months from the date of the exchange 

 of the ratifications of this treaty. 



Article IV. 



Within three months after the delivery on both sides of the printed case, 

 either partv mav, in like manner deliver in duplicate to each of the said arbi- 

 trators, and to the agent of the other party, a counter case, and additional 

 documents, correspondence, and evidence, in reply to the case, documents, 

 correspondence, and evidence so presented by the other party. 



If, however, in consequence of the distance of the place from which the evi- 

 dence to be presented is to be procured, either party shall, within thirty days 

 after the receipt by its agent of the case of the other party, give notice to the 

 other party that it requires additional time for the delivery of such counter 

 case, documents, correspondence and evidence, such additional time so indicated, 

 but not exceeding sixty days beyond the three months in this article provided, 

 shall be allowed. 



If in the case submitted to the arbitrators either party shall have specified or 

 alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession, without 

 annexing a copy, such party shall be bound, if the other party thinks proper to 

 apply for it, to furnish that party with a copy thereof; and either party may 

 call upon the other, through the arbitrators, to produce the originals or certified 

 copies of any papers adduced as evidence, giving in each instance notice thereof 



