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as aforesaid to act as arbitrator or umpire in bis or tbeir 
place or stead, and shall make and subscribe such declaration 
as aforesaid. 
Her Britannic Majesty and the Republic of Honduras 
hereby engage to consider the decision of the Commissioners 
conjointly, or of the arbitrator or umpire, as the case may 
be, as final and conclusive on the matters to be referred to 
their decision; and they further engage forthwith to give 
full effect to the same. 
Article VII. The Commissioners and the arbitrator or 
umpire shall keep an accurate record, and correct minutes or 
notes, of all their proceedings, with the dates thereof, and 
shall appoint and employ a clerk or other persons to assist 
them in the transaction of the business which may come 
before them. 
The salaries of the Commissioners shall be paid by their 
respective Governments. The contingent expenses of the 
Commission, including the salary of the arbitrator or umpire, 
and of the clerk or clerks, shall be defrayed in equal halves 
by the two Governments. 
Article VIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and 
the ratifications shall be exchanged at Comayagua, as soon 
as possible within six months from this date. 
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have 
signed the same, and have affixed thereto their respective 
seals. 
Done at Comayagua, the twenty-eighth day of November, 
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty-nine. 
C. Lennox Wyke. (L.S.) 
Francisco Cruz. (L.S.) 
Proceedings at a Public Meeting held at Blewfields 
1st May, 1867. 
At a Public Meeting held at the King^s House, Blewfields, 
Mosquito, on the first day of May, 1867, Present, Mr. Alfred 
