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MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS, 1776-1917
  • For Chili.—Their Excellencies Alberto Blest Gana, Emilio Bello Codecido, Joaquin Walker Martinez, Augusto Matte.
  • For the Dominican Republic.—Their Excellencies Federico Henriquez y Carvajal, Luis Felipe Carbo, Quintin Gutierrez.
  • For Ecuador.—His Excellency Luis Felipe Carbo.
  • For El Salvador—Their Excellencies Francisco A. Reyes, Baltasar Estupinián.
  • For the United States of America.—Their Excellencies Henry G. Davis, William I. Buchanan, Charles M. Pepper, Volney W. Foster, John Barrett.
  • For Guatemala.—Their Excellencies Antonio Lazo Arriaga, Colonel Francisco Orla.
  • For Hayti.—His Excellency J. N. Léger.
  • For Honduras.—Their Excellencies José Leonard, Fausto Dávila.
  • For Mexico.—Their Excellencies Genaro Raigosa, Joaquín D. Casasús, José López Portillo y Rojas, Emilio Pardo, jr., Pablo Macedo, Alfredo Chavero, Francisco L. de la Barra, Manuel Sánchez Mármol, Rosendo Pineda.
  • For Nicaragua.—His Excellency Luis F. Corea, His Excellency Fausto Davila.
  • For Paraguay.—His Excellency Cecilio Baez.
  • For Peru.—Their Excellencies Isaac Alzamora, Alberto Elmo, Manuel Alvarez Calderón.
  • For Uruguay.—His Excellency Juan Cuestas;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and found them to be in due and proper form, excepting those presented by the representatives of Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Nicaragua and Paraguay, who act "ad referendum," have agreed, to celebrate a Treaty to submit to the decision of arbitrators Pecuniary Claims for damages that have not been settled by diplomatic channel, in the following terms:

Art. 1. The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens, and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels and when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expenses of arbitration.

Art. 2. By virtue of the faculty recognized by Article 26 of the Convention of The Hague for the pacific settlement of international disputes,[1] the High Contracting Parties agree to submit to the decision of the permanent Court of Arbitration established by said Convention, all controversies which are the subject matter of the present Treaty, unless both Parties should prefer that a special jurisdiction be organized, according to Article 21 of the Convention referred to.


  1. Convention dated July 29, 1899 (TS 392), ante, p. 230.