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Who, after exhibiting to each other their full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE 1.

Any disputes arising between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of His Majesty the King of Sweden, of whatever nature they may be, shall, when ordinary diplomatic proceedings have failed and the High Contracting Parties do not have recourse to arbitration, be submitted for investigation and report to a permanent International Commission constituted in the manner prescribed in the following article.

The High Contracting Parties agree not to resort, with respect to each other, to any act of force during the investigation to be made by the Commission and before its report is handed in.

ARTICLE 2.

The International Commission shall be composed of five members appointed as follows: Each Government shall designate two members, only one of whom shall be of its own nationality; the fifth member shall be designated by common consent and shall not belong to any of the nationalities already represented on the Commission; he shall perform the duties of President.

In case the two Governments should be unable to agree on the choice of the fifth commissioner, the other four shall be called upon to designate him, and failing an understanding between them, the provisions of article 45 of The Hague Convention of 1907 shall be applied.

The Commission shall be organized within six months from the exchange of ratifications of the present convention.

The members shall be appointed for one year and their appointment may be renewed. They shall remain in office until superseded or reappointed, or until the work on which they are engaged at the time their office expires is completed.

Any vacancies which may arise (from death, resignation, or cases of physical or moral incapacity) shall be filled within the shortest possible period in the manner followed for the original appoint

ment.

The High Contracting Parties shall, before designating the Commissioners, reach an understanding in regard to their compensation. They shall bear by halves the expenses incident to the meeting of the Commission.

ARTICLE 3.

Differences that may happen to occur between the High Contracting Parties and should fail of settlement by diplomatic methods shall be forthwith referred to the examination of the International Commission which will undertake to make a report. By a note addressed to the International Bureau of the Permanent Court at The Hague, which shall communicate it without delay to both Gov

ernments, the President may remind the Parties that the services of the International Commission are at their disposal.

ARTICLE 4.

The two High Contracting Parties shall have a right, each on its own part, to state to the President of the Commission what is the subject-matter of the controversy. No difference in these statements, which shall be furnished by way of suggestion, shall arrest the action of the Commission.

In case the cause of the dispute should consist of certain acts already committed or about to be committed, the Commission shall as soon as possible indicate what measures to preserve the rights of each party ought in its opinion to be taken provisionally and pending the delivery of its report.

ARTICLE 5.

As regards the procedure which it is to follow, the Commission shall as far as possible be guided by the provisions contained in articles 9 to 36 Convention 1 of The Hague of 1907.

The High Contracting Parties agree to afford the Commission all means and all necessary facilities for its investigation and report. The work of the Commission shall be completed within one year from the date on which it has taken jurisdiction of the case. unless the High Contracting parties should agree to set a different period.

The conclusion of the Commission and the terms of its report shall be adopted by a majority. The report, signed only by the President acting by virtue of his office, shall be transmitted by him to each of the Contracting Parties.

The High Contracting Parties reserve full liberty as to the action to be taken on the report of the Commission.

ARTICLE 6.

The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, upon his being authorized thereto by the American Senate, and by His Majesty the King of Sweden.

The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall go into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications.

Its duration shall be five years counted from the exchange of ratifications.

Unless denounced six months at least before the expiration of the said period it shall continue by tacit renewal for another period of five years and so on in periods of five years unless denounced. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and have affixed thereunto their seals.

Done at Washington this 13th day of October, in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen.

[SEAL.] [SEAL.]

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
W. A. F. EKENGREN

AGREEMENT EFFECTED BY EXCHANGE OF NOTES EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSION UNDER ARTICLE II OF TREATY OF OCTOBER 13, 1914.

Sir:

Signed at Washington November 16, 1915.

(Treaty Series, No. 607-A.)

[The Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 16, 1915.

The time specified in the Treaty of October 13, 1914, between the United States and Sweden, looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, for the appointment of the International Commission having expired, without the United States non-national Commissioner being named, I have the honor to suggest for the consideration of your Government that the time within which the organization of the Commission may be completed be extended from July 11, 1915 to January 15, 1916.

Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, that your Government receives the suggestion favorably, will be regarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that it will be so regarded by your Government also.

Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. ROBERT LANSING

Mr. W. A. F. EKENGREN,

Sir:

The Minister of Sweden.

[The Swedish Minister to the Secretary of State.]

LEGATION OF SWEDEN, Washington, D. C., November 16, 1915.

I have the honor to inform your Excellency that my Government accepts the suggestion contained in your Excellency's note of today's date that the time specified in the Treaty of the 13th October 1914, between the United States and Sweden, for the appointment of the International Commission therein provided, be extended from July 11, 1915 to January 15, 1916.

With renewed assurances of my highest consideration I have the honor to remain your Excellency's most obedient servant.

His Excellency

Mr. ROBERT LANSING,

Secretary of State, etc., etc., etc.

W. A. F. EKENGREN

SWITZERLAND.

1913.

AGREEMENT EXTENDING THE DURATION OF THE ARBITRATION CONVENTION OF FEBRUARY 29, 1908.

Signed at Washington November 3, 1913; ratification advised by the Senate February 21, 1914; ratified by the President March 23, 1914; ratified by Switzerland March 10, 1914; ratifications exchanged at Washington April 27, 1914; proclaimed April 28, 1914.

(Treaty Series, No. 590; 38 Statutes at Large, 1773.)

ARTICLES.

I. Extends 1908 convention five years. | II. Ratification; effect.

The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Swiss Confederation, being desirous of extending the period of five years during which the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on February 29, 1908, is to remain in force, which period expires on December 23, 1913, have authorized the undersigned, to wit: William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State of the United States, and Ernest Baumann, Chargé d'Affaires of the Swiss Confederation to the United States, to conclude the following agreement:

ARTICLE I.

The Convention of Arbitration of February 29, 1908,1 between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Swiss Confederation, the duration of which by Article III thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the day of the exchange of the ratifications, which period will terminate on December 23, 1913, is hereby extended and continued in force for a further period of five years from December 23, 1913.

ARTICLE II.

The present agreement shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, conforming to the constitution and the laws of Switzerland, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. Done in duplicate, in the English and French languages, at Washington this 3rd day of November one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

1For text see Vol. II, p. 1776.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN [SEAL]
ERNEST BAUMANN
[SEAL.]

URUGUAY.

1909.

ARBITRATION CONVENTION.

Signed at Washington January 9, 1909; ratification advised by the Senate January 13, 1909; ratified by the President March 1, 1909; ratified by Uruguay June 27, 1913; ratifications exchanged at Washington November 14, 1913; proclaimed November 15, 1913.

(Treaty Series, No. 583; 38 Statutes at Large, 1741.)

I. Differences to be submitted
Hague court.

II. Special agreement for each case.

ARTICLES.

to III. Concluded for five years,
IV. Ratification; effect.

The Government of the United States of America, signatory of the two conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague, respectively, on July 29, 1899, and October 18, 1907, and the Government of the Republic of Uruguay, adherent to the said convention of July 29, 1899, and signatory of the said convention of October 18, 1907;

Taking into consideration that by Article XIX of the convention of July 29, 1899, and by Article XL of the convention of October 18, 1907, the High Contracting Parties have reserved to themselves the right of concluding Agreements, with a view to referring to arbitration all questions which they shall consider possible to submit to such treatment;

Have authorized the Undersigned to conclude the following Con

vention:

ARTICLE I.

Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the convention of the 29th July, 1899.1 for the pacific settlement of international disputes, and maintained by The Hague Convention of the 18th October, 1907; provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honor of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third Parties.

ARTICLE II.

In each individual case the High Contracting Parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, shall conclude a

For text see Vol. II, p. 2016.

For text see Vol. II, p. 2220.

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