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 GREAT BRITAIN, 1871. 357 ARTICLE II. The Arbitrators shall meet at Geneva, in Switzerland, at the earliest Meeting of arbicoqvenient day after they shall have been named, and shall proceed *****0***- impartially and carefully to examine and decide all questions that shall P*°°°°di“f!°· be laid before them on the part of the Governments of the United States and Her Britaunic Majesty respectively. All questions considered by Decisions. the tribunal, including the nnal award, shall be decided by a majority of all the Arbitrators. Each of the high contracting parties shall also name one person to Agent of each attend the tribunal as its Agent to represent it generally in all matters Pi**°Y- connected with the arbitration. Antrrorn III. The written or printed case of each of the two parties, accompanied C¤¤*>°€°=*°l*P**'*Y by the documents, the official correspondence, and other evidence on §)‘{t:’:“§,:'°“ t° M` which each relies, shall be delivered in duplicate to each of the Arbitra- ` tors 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. Anricnm IV. Within four months after the delivery on both sides of the written or Delivery Ofcom,- printed case, either party ma_y, in like manner, deliver in duplicate to ter case. 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, correspondence, and evidence so presented by the other party. The Arbitrators may, however, extend the time for delivering such Time may be excounter case, documents, correspondence, and evidence, when, in their *°**d**d· judgment, it becomes necessary, in consequence of the distance of the place from which the evidence to be presented is to be procured. If in the case submitted to the Arbitrators either party shall have D<>°**¤*°***¤ ****0 specified or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive pos-  t° b° pm` session without annexing 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 reasonable notice as the Arbitrators may require. Anerrcnn V. It shall be the duty of the Agent of each party, within two months _A*"s¤¤*<=¤*¤ Md after the expiration of the time limited for the delivery of the counter b""f*· case on both sides, 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. Anricnn VI. In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitrators, they shall be Rules, &<>-, to governed by the following three rules, which are agreed upon by the ighihéiilhzj high contracting parties as rules to be taken as applicable to the case, c,,,,,,,,,, and by such principles of international law not inconsistent therewith as the Arbitrators shall determine to have been applicable to the case.