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risdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as 
above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or 
in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use. 
“Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make 
use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against 
the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation 
of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. 
“Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and wa- 
ters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent 
any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.” 
Great Britain, it is added in the Treaty by way of 
explanation, can not assent to the foregoing rules as 
a statement of principles of international law which 
were actually in force at the time when the claims in 
question arose; but,in order to evince her desire of 
strengthening the friendly relations between the two 
countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the 
future, she agrees that, in deciding the questions aris- 
ing out of such claims, the Arbitrators should assume 
that she had undertaken to act upon the principles 
set forth in these rules. 
And the Parties proceed to stipulate to observe 
these rules as between themselves in the future, and 
to bring them to the knowledge of other maritime 
Powers, and to invite the latter to accede thereto. 
In respect of procedure, the Treaty provides that 
each of the two Parties shall name one person to at- 
tend the Tribunal as its agent or representative ; 
that the written or 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 
