DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE CONGO - Continued. Bill approving the additional act to the treaty of annexation of the Independent State of the Congo to Belgium. March 5, 1908...... BRAZIL-COLOMBIA. Treaty concerning boundary. April 24, 1907.. BRAZIL-COLOMBIA. Agreement of modus vivendi on the Putumayo. April 100 Joint note of Spain and France. September 14, 1908.. Joint note of powers to Mulai Hafid. November 18, 1908. Final note of recognition of Mulai Hafid. December 17, 1908.. PANAMA CANAL. Documents in reference to neutralization: AUSTRIA-FRANCE-GREAT BRITAIN-PRUSSIA-RUSSIA. Convention for the neutralization of Switzerland. November 20, 1815.... GREAT BRITAIN-AUSTRIA-FRANCE-PRUSSIA-RUSSIA-NETHERLANDS, Annex UNITED STATES-NEW GRANADA. Treaty of peace, amity, navigation, and commerce, establishing the neutralization of the Isthmus of Panama. UNITED STATES-GREAT BRITAIN. Convention for facilitating and protect- 110 GREAT BRITAIN - AUSTRIA-FRANCE - PRUSSIA-RUSSIA-SARDINIA-TURKEY. Provisions concerning the neutralization of the Black Sea and Danube GREAT BRITAIN-AUSTRIA-FRANCE-PRUSSIA-RUSSIA. Treaty concern- ing the annexation of the Ionian Islands by Greece. November 14, 1863 116 annexation of the Ionian Islands by Greece. March 29, 1864.... 117 LUXEMBURG, Treaty relative to the neutralization of the grand duchy UNITED STATES-GREAT BRITAIN. Treaty to facilitate the construction of a ship canal. (Hay-Pauncefote treaty.) November 18, 1901..... 127 UNITED STATES-PANAMA. Convention for the construction of a ship canal to connect the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. UNITED STATES-BELGIUM. Note of the Secretary of State of the United 140 UNITED STATES-OTHER POWERS. "Political offence" in extradition treaties. 144 UNITED STATES-OTHER POWERS. Arrangement for the establishment of the international office of public health. December 9, 1907.... UNITED STATES-PORTUGAL. Naturalization treaty. May 7, 1908..... UNITED STATES-PORTUGAL. Extradition treaty and notes concerning the death penalty. May 7, 1908.... UNITED STATES-GREAT BRITAIN. Special agreement for the submission of questions relating to fisheries on the North Atlantic coast under the general treaty of arbitration concluded between the United States and UNITED STATES-OTHER POWERS. The London Naval Conference. February NETHERLANDS BRAZIL. Treaty establishing the boundary between Brazil and the colony of Surinam. May 5, 1906... UNITED STATES-ITALY. Supplementary commercial agreement. March 2, 235 NUMBER 4, OCTOBER, 1909. UNITED STATES-COSTA RICA. Arbitration convention. January 13, 1909.. 277 UNITED STATES-GERMANY. Convention concerning patents. February 23, 1909 .. 278 UNITED STATES-PERU. Arbitration convention. December 5, 1908.. UNITED STATES-RUSSIA. Agreement regulating the position of corporations and other commercial associations. June 25/12, 1904...... UNITED STATES-SALVADOR. Arbitration convention. December 21, 1908.... 282 UNITED STATES-URUGUAY. Naturalization convention. August 10, 1908.... 284 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-TURKEY. Protocol. February 26, 1909... CHINA-RUSSIA. Preliminary arrangement for the municipal organizations in the zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway. May 11, 1909.. FRANCE-BELGIUM. Agreements in regard to the Congo. December 23, 1908. 293 FRANCE-GREAT BRITAIN. Additional extradition convention. October 17, 296 UNITED KINGDOM-COLOMBIA. Arbitration agreement. December 30, 1908.. 305 UNITED KINGDOM-GERMANY. Declaration referring southern boundary of British territory of Walfish Bay to arbitration. January 30, 1909..... 306 TRANSVAAL-MOZAMBIQUE. Convention. April 1, 1909.... JAPAN-NETHERLANDS. Consular Convention concerning the colonies and pos- INTERNATIONAL RADIOTELEGRAPHIC CONVENTION. November 3, 1906.. BOLIVIA-PERU. Treaty of general arbitration. November 21, 1901.... BOLIVIA-PERU. Treaty relating to the demarcation of frontiers. September OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS TREATY OF ARBITRATION BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL AND THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. The Government of the Republic of the United States of Brazil and the Government of the Argentine Republic, desiring to establish upon firm, permanent bases the relations of ancient friendship and good neighborliness that happily exist between the two countries, have determined to celebrate a general Treaty of Arbitration, and, for this end, have nominated plenipotentiaries, to wit: His Excellency Mr. Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil, Mr. José Maria da Silva Paranhos do Rio-Branco, Minister of State for Foreign Relations of the same Republic; and His Excellency Mr. Manoel Quintana, President of the Argentine Republic, Mr. Manoel Gorostiaga, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Brazil; Who, duly authorized, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I. The High Contracting Parties bind themselves to submit to arbitration the controversies that may arise between them and that they are unable to settle by direct negotiations or by any other way of deciding amicable international disputes, in so far as such controversies do not turn upon questions involving constitutional rules of the one or the other of the two countries. ARTICLE II. The consideration of past questions, that have been the object of definite agreements between the two parties, will not by virtue of this treaty, be reopened, it being possible to submit to arbitration only the questions regarding the interpretation and execution of the same. ARTICLE III. The High Contracting Parties will sign a special agreement for each case that occurs. ARTICLE IV. The points agreed upon will be fixed with due clearness by the High Contracting Parties, who should also determine the scope of the powers of the arbitrator or abitrators and the procedure governing them. ARTICLE V. In the absence of special stipulations between the parties, it is the duty of the arbitrator or arbitrators to designate the time and the place of the sessions, outside of the territories of the Contracting States, selecting the language that must be used, determining the manner of presentation of the case, the formalities and periods of time to which the parties should adhere to, the procedure to follow, and, in general, take all the necessary steps to fulfill their duties and solve all the difficulties that may arise in the course of the discussion. The two Governments bind themselves to place at the disposition of the arbitrator or arbitrators all the sources of information at their disposal. ARTICLE VI. The designation of the arbitrator or arbitrators will be made in the special agreement or in a separate instrument, after the nominee or nominees declare that they accept the mission. ARTICLE VII. If it is agreed that the question shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal, each of the High Contracting Parties will nominate an arbitrator and they will try to agree upon a third, who will be, by right, president of the tribunal. In the case of disagreement over the election of a third, the two Governments will request the President of the Swiss Confederation to nominate the president of the tribunal. ARTICLE VIII. Each one of the parties may appoint one or more representatives to defend their cause before the arbitrator or arbitrators. ARTICLE IX. The arbitrator, or the arbitral tribunal, is competent to decide as to the validity of the agreement and the interpretation of the same. Consequently, it is also competent to decide the controversies between the parties as to whether certain questions that arise are or are not proper |