No. 77.
Earl Granville to Sir E.
Thornton.
Foreign
Office, May 31,
1872.
[From British Blue Book “North America,” No. 9, (1872,) p.
33.]
Sir: I send you the draught of a Convention for
adjourning the period for the presentation of the arguments under the
Vth Article of the Treaty of Washington, to be used, however, by you
only in case of the new Treaty Article proposed by us not being agreed
to, and an adjournment being agreed to, in which case you are authorized
to sign it as it is now sent to you.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 77.]
Sketch of a Convention.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the United States of America, deeming it expedient to
extend the time assigned in the Vth Article of the Treaty of
Washington, of the 8th of May, 1871, for the delivery in duplicate
to each of the Arbitrators appointed under the 1st Article of the
said Treaty, and to the Agents of the respective parties, of the
written or printed argument, showing the points and referring to the
evidence upon which each of the said parties respectively relies, in
regard to the matters submitted by them for arbitration under the
aforesaid 1st Article, they have agreed to conclude a Convention for
that purpose, and have accordingly named as their
Plenipotentiaries:
That is to say, &c.
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Article I.
The High Contracting Parties agree that the period appointed under
the Vth Article of the Treaty of Washington, of May 8, 1871, for the
delivery in duplicate to each of the Arbitrators, and to the Agents
of the respective High Contracting Parties, of the written or
printed argument, showing the points and referring to the evidence
upon which each of the said parties respectively relies, in regard
to the matters submitted by them for arbitration under the 1st
Article of the aforesaid Treaty, shall not be insisted on, but that
it shall be open to the High Contracting Parties, within the period
of three months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications
of the present Convention, jointly to notify, through their
respective Agents to the Arbitrators, the day on which those Agents
will be prepared to deliver at Geneva the said arguments to the
Arbitrators.
Article II.
A copy of this Convention shall be forthwith communicated by the
Agents of the High Contracting Parties to the several
Arbitrators.
Article III.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications
exchanged at London, within weeks from the date thereof.
