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an Additional Protocol to the General Convention of Inter-American Conciliation which was signed at Washington on January 5, 1929, was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, Uruguay, Ecuador, and Chile, to the Seventh International Conference of American States at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, a certified copy of which Additional Protocol, in the English and Spanish languages, is word for word as follows:

The High Contracting Parties of the General Convention of Inter-American Conciliation of the 5th of January, 1929, convinced of the undeniable advantage of giving a permanent character to the Commissions of Investigation and Conciliation to which Article 2 of said Convention refers, agree to add to the aforementioned Convention the following and additional Protocol.

Each country signatory to the Treaty signed in Santiago, Chile, the 3rd of May, 1923, shall name, as soon as possible, by means of a bilateral agreement which shall be recorded in a simple exchange of notes with each one of the other signatories of the aforementioned Treaty, those members of the various commissions provided for in Article 4 of said Treaty. The commissions so named shall have a permanent character and shall be called Commissions of Investigation and Conciliation.

Any of the contracting parties may replace the members which have been designated, whether they be nationals or foreigners; but, at the same time, the substitute shall be named. In case the substitution is not made, the replacement shall not be effective.

The commissions organized in fulfillment of Article 3 of the aforementioned Treaty of Santiago, Chile, shall be called Permanent Diplomatic Commissions of Investigation and Conciliation.