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BY HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY.

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"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of 10 Venezuela, being desirous to provide for an amicable settlement of the question which has arisen between their respective Governments concerning the boundary between the Colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela, have resolved to submit to 15 arbitration the question involved, and to the end of concluding a Treaty for that purpose have appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Sir 20
Julian Pauncefote, a Member of Her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath and of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni- 25
potentiary to the United States;

"And the President of the United States of Venezuela,
Señor José Andrade, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of Venezuela to the United States of
America;

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and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles:

"ARTICLE I.

"An Arbitral Tribunal shall be immediately ap5 pointed to determine the boundary-line between the Colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela.

"ARTICLE II.

"The Tribunal shall consist of five Jurists: two on 10 the part of Great Britain, nominated by the Members of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, namely, the Right Honourable Baron Herschell, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and the Honourable Sir Richard Henn 15 Collins, Knight, one of the Justices of Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature; two on the part of Venezuela, nominated, one by the President of the United States of Venezuela, namely, the Honourable Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United 20 States of America, and one nominated by the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, namely, the Honourable David Josiah Brewer, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America ; and of a fifth Jurist to be selected by the four persons 25 so nominated, or in the event of their failure to agree within three months from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present Treaty, to be selected by His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. The Jurist so selected shall be President of the 30 Tribunal.

"In case of the death, absence, or incapacity to serve of any of the four Arbitrators above named, or in the event of any such Arbitrator omitting or declining or ceasing to act as such, another Jurist of repute shall 35 be forthwith substituted in his place. If such vacancy shall occur among those nominated on the part of Great Britain, the substitute shall be appointed by the members for the time being of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, acting by a majority, 40 and if among those nominated on the part of Venezuela, he shall be appointed by the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, acting by a majority. If such vacancy shall occur in the case of the fifth Arbitrator, a substitute shall be selected in the manner 45 herein provided for with regard to the original appointment.

"ARTICLE III.

"The Tribunal shall investigate and ascertain the extent of the territories belonging to, or that might 50 lawfully be claimed by, the United Netherlands or by the Kingdom of Spain respectively at the time of the acquisition by Great Britain of the Colony of British

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"The Arbitrators shall meet at Paris, within sixty days after the delivery of the printed arguments 35 mentioned in Article VIII, and shall proceed impartially and carefully to examine and decide the questions that have been, or shall be, laid before them, as herein provided, on the part of the Governments of Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of Venezuela 40 respectively.

"Provided always that the Arbitrators may, if they shall think fit, hold their meetings, or any of them, at any other place which they may determine.

"All questions considered by the Tribunal, including 45 the final decision, shall be determined by a majority of all the Arbitrators.

"Each of the High Contracting Parties shall name one person as its Agent to attend the Tribunal, and to represent it generally in all matters connected with the 50 Tribunal.

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