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national of either party, to be designated by the tribunal. This commis- 

 sion shall examine into and report their conclusions on any question or 

 questions so referred to it by the tribunal, and such report shall be con- 

 sidered by the tribunal and shall, if incorporated by them in the award, 

 be accepted as a part thereof. 



Pending the report of the commission upon the question or questions 

 80 referred, and without awaiting such report, the tribunal may make 

 a separate award upon all or any other questions before it, and such 

 separate award, if made, shall become immediately effective, provided 

 that the report aforesaid shall not be incorporated in the award until it 

 has been considered by the tribunal. The expenses of such commission 

 shall be borne in equal moieties by the parties hereto. 



ARTICLE 4 



The tribunal shall recommend for the consideration of the high con- 

 tracting parties rules and a method of procedure under which all ques- 

 tions which may arise in the future regarding the exercise of the liber- 

 ties above referred to may be determined in accordance with the prin- 

 ciples laid down in the award. If the high contracting 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 upon 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 application of the award of the tri- 

 bunal, shall be referred informally to the Permanent Court at The Hague 

 for decision by the summary procedure provided in Chapter IV of the 

 Hague Convention of the 18th October, 1907. 



ARTICLE 5 



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 45 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 53 and 54, shall govern the proceedings under the sub- 

 mission 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 tri- 

 bunal shall be three months. 



