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 CONCILIATION TREATY-ESTONIA. AUGUST 27, 1929. 2761 each Government from some third count.ry; the fifth member shall be chosen by common agreement between the two Governments, it being understood that be shall not be a citizen of either country. The Expenaes. expenses of the Commission shall 00 paid by the two Governments in equal proportions. The International Commission shall be appointed within six Appointment. months after the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and vacancies shall be filled according to the manner of the original appointment. AImCLE III. In case the High Contracting Parties shall have failed to adjust Reference of disputes a dispute by diplomatic methods, and they do not have recourse to to commission. adjudication by a competent tribunal, they shall at once refer it to the International Commission for investIgation and report. The International Commission may, however, spontaneously by unani- mous agreement offer its services to that effect, and in such case it shall notify both Governments and request theIr cooperation in the inve.:,tigation. The High Contracting Parties agree to furnish the Permanent Facllities, etc., to be International Commission with all the means and facilities required furnished. for its investigation and report. The report of the Commission shall be completed within one year Time. etc., tor report. after the date on which it shall declare its investigation to have begun, unless the High Contracting Parties shall limit or extend the time by mutual agreement. The report shall be prepared in triplicate; one copy shall be presented to each Government, .and the third re- tained by the Commission for its files. The High Contracting Parties reserve the right to act independ- Ind~ndent action ently on the subject matter of the dispute after the report of the reserv. Commission shall have been submitted. ARTICLE IV. The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United RaWication. States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Estonia in accordance with its constitutional laws. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as Exchange of rat11lca- possible, and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange y~d duration of of the ratifications. It shall thereafter remain :n force continuously unless and until terminated by one year's written notice given by either High Contracting Party to the other. In faith thereof too, respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in duplicate in the English language and hereunto affix their seals. Done at Tallinn the 27th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty nine. F. W. B. COLEMAN J. LATTIK [SEAL] [SEAL] Signatures. AND WHEREAS the said Treatv has been duly ratified on both Ratifications n" ~ • changed. parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the eighteenth day of June, one thou- £and nine hundred and thirty;