THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 959 
omit, decline, or from any cause cease to act as such Arbitrator, His Majesty 
the King of Sweden and Norway shall be requested to name one or more per- 
sons, as the case may be, to act as such Arbitrator or Arbitrators. 
ARTICLE IL. 
The Arbitrators shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest conven- 
ient day after they shall have been named, and shall proceed impartially and 
carefully to examine and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on 
the part of the Governments of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty re- 
spectively, All questions considered by the Tribunal, including the final award, 
shall be decided 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 IIT. 
The written or printed case of zach 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 of 
the other Party as soon as may be after the organization of the Tribunal, but 
within a period not exceeding six months from the date of the exchange of the 
ratifications of this Treaty. 
ARTICLE IV. 
Within four months after the delivery on both sides of the written or printed 
case, either Party may, in like manner, deliver in duplicate to each of the said 
Arbitrators, and to the agent of the other Party, a counter-case, and additional 
documents, correspondence, and evidence, in reply to the case, documents, corre- 
spondence, and evidence so presented by the other Party. 
The Arbitrators may, however, extend the time for delivering such counter- 
casc, documents, correspondence, and evidence, when, in their judgment, it be- 
comes necessary, in consequence of the distance of the place from which the evi- 
dence to be presented is to be procured. 
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 an- 
nexing 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 such reason- 
able notice as the Arbitrators may require. 
ARTICLE V. 
It shall be the duty of the agent of each Party, within two months after the 
expiration of the time limited for the delivery of the counter-case on both sides, 
