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to deliver in duplicate to each of the said Arbitrators and to the agent of the 
other party a written or printed argument showing the points and referring to 
the evidence upon which his Government relies ; and the Arbitrators may, if 
they desire further elucidation with regard to any point, require a written or 
printed statement or argument, or oral argument by counsel upon it; but in such 
case the other Party shall be entitled to reply either orally or in writing, as the 
case may be. 
Articte VI. 
In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitrators, they shall be governed 
by the following three rules, which are agreed upon by the High Contracting 
Parties as rules to be taken as applicable to the case, and by such principles of 
International Law not inconsistent therewith as the Arbitrators shall determine 
to have been applicable to the case. 
RULES. 
A neutral Government is bound— 
First, to use due diligence to prevent the-fitting out, arming, or equipping, 
within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is 
intended to cruise, or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at 
peace; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdic- 
tion of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel hay- 
ing been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to war- 
like 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. f ; 
Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all 
persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obliga- 
tions and duties. 
Her Britannic Majesty has commanded her High Commissioners and Pleni- 
potentiaries to declare that Her Majesty’s Government can not assent to the 
foregoing rules as a statement of principles of International Law which wete 
in force at the time when the claims mentioned in Article I. arose; but that 
Her Majesty’s Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the 
friendly relations between the two countries and of making satisfactory provis- 
ion for the future, agrees that, in deciding the questions between the two coun- 
tries arising out of those claims, the Arbitrators should assume that Her Maj- 
esty’s Government had undertaken to act upon the principles set forth in these 
rules. : 
And the High Contracting Parties agree to observe these rules as between 
themselves in future, and to bring them to the knowledge of other maritime 
Powers, and to invite them to atcede to them. 
