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mended, 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 be- 

 tween the High Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation of the Treaty of 

 1818 or to the effect and application of the award of the Tribunal 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 i8th October, 

 1907. 



Art. V. 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 XLV of the Convention for the Settlement of International 

 Disputes, concluded at the Second Peace Conference at The Hague on the iSth of 

 October, 1907. The provisions of said Convention, so far as applicable and not in- 

 consistent herewith, and excepting Articles LIII and LIV, shall govern the proceedings 

 under the submission 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 Tribunal shall be three 

 months. 



Art. VI. The pleadings shall be communicated in the order and within the time 

 following: 



As soon as may be and within a period not exceeding seven months from the date of 

 the exchange of notes making this agreement binding the printed case of each of the 

 Parties hereto, accompanied by printed copies of the documents, the official correspond- 

 ence, and all other evidence on which each Party relies, shall be delivered in duplicate 

 (with such additional copies as may be agreed upon) to the agent of the other Party. 

 It shall be sufficient for this purpose if such case is delivered at the British Embassy 

 at Washington or at the American Embassy at London, as the case may be, for trans- 

 mission to the agent for its Government. 



Within fifteen days thereafter such printed case and accompanying evidence of 

 each of the Parties shall be delivered in duplicate to each member of the Tribunal, and 

 such delivery may be made by depositing within the stated period the necessary 

 number of copies with the International Bureau at The Hague for transmission to 

 the Arbitrators. 



After the delivery on both sides of such printed case, either Party may, in like man- 

 ner, and within four months after the expiration of the period above fixed for the 

 delivery to the agents of the case, deliver to the agent of the other Party (with such 

 additional copies as may be agreed upon), a printed counter-case accompanied by 

 printed copies of additional documents, correspondence, and other evidence in reply 

 to the case, documents, correspondence, and other evidence so presented by the other 

 Party, and within fifteen days thereafter such Party shall, in like manner as above 

 provided, deliver in duplicate such counter-case and accompanying evidence to each 

 of the Arbitrators. 



The foregoing provisions shall not prevent the Tribunal from permitting either 

 Party to rely at the hearing upon documentary or other evidence which is shown to 

 have become open to its investigation or examination or available for use too late to 

 be submitted within the period hereinabove fixed for the delivery of copies of evidence, 

 but in case any such evidence is to be presented, printed copies of it, as soon as possible 

 after it is secured, must be delivered, in like manner as provided for the deUvery of 

 copies of other evidence, to each of the Arbitrators and to the agent of the other Party. 

 The admission of any such additional evidence, however, shall be subject to such 



