# United States Treaty Series/Volume 1/Arbitration of pecuniary claims (inter-American) (1910)

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ARBITRATION OF PECUNIARY CLAIMS (INTER-AMERICAN)
* Convention signed at Buenos Aires August 11, 1910
* Senate advice and consent to ratification February 1, 1911
* Ratified by the President of the United States March 21, 1911
* Ratification of the United States deposited at Buenos Aires May 1, 1911
* Entered into force January 1, 1913
* Proclaimed by the President of the United States July 29, 1914
38 Stat. 1799; Treaty Series 594
Convention
Pecuniary Claims
Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela;
Being desirous that their respective countries may be represented at the Fourth International American Conference have sent thereto the following Delegates, duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions, conventions and treaties which may be advantageous to the interests of America:
* Republic of Cuba: Carlos García Vélez, Rafael Montoro y Valdés, Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui, Antonio Gonzalo Pérez, José M. Carbonell.
* Dominican Republic: Américo Lugo.
* Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cárdenas.
* Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada.
* Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard.
* Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga.
* Mexican United States: Victoriano Salado Alvarez, Luis Pérez Verdía, Antonio Ramos Pedrueza, Roberto A. Esteva Ruiz.
* Republic of Nicaragua: Manuel Pérez Alonso.
* Republic of Panama: Belisario Porras.
* Republic of Paraguay: Teodosio González, José P. Montero.
* Republic of Peru: Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, Carlos Alvarez Calderón, José Antonio de Lavalle y Pardo.
* Republic of Salvador: Federico Mejía, Francisco Martínez Suárez.
* Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Ramírez, Carlos M. de Pena, Antonio M. Rodríguez, Juan José de Amézaga.
* United States of Venezuela: Manuel Díaz Rodriquez, César Zumeta.
Who, after having presented their credentials and the same having been found in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following Convention on Pecuniary Claims.
1st. 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, which said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration.
The decision shall be rendered in accordance with the principles of International Law.
2nd. The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to the decision of the permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague all controversies which are the subject-matter of the present Treaty, unless both parties agree to constitute a special jurisdiction.
If a case is submitted to the Permanent Court of The Hague, the High Contracting Parties accept the provisions of the treaty relating to the organization of that arbitral Tribunal, to the procedure to be followed and to the obligation to comply with the sentence.
3rd. If it shall be agreed to constitute a special jurisdiction, there shall be prescribed in the convention by which this is determined the rules according to which the tribunal shall proceed, which shall have cognizance of the ​questions involved in the claims referred to in Article 1st. of the present treaty.
4th. The present Treaty shall come into force immediately after the thirty-first of December 1912, when the treaty on pecuniary claims, signed at Mexico, on January 31 [30], 1902, and extended by the treaty signed at Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 1906, expires.
It shall remain in force indefinitely, as well for the nations which shall then have ratified it as those which shall ratify it subsequently.
The ratifications shall be transmitted to the Government of the Argentine Republic, which shall communicate them to the other Contracting Parties.
5th. Any of the nations ratifying the present Treaty may denounce it, on its own part, by giving two years notice in writing, in advance, of its intention so to do.
This notice shall be transmitted to the Government of the Argentine Republic and through its intermediation, to the other contracting Parties.
6th. The treaty of Mexico shall continue in force after December 31, 1912, as to any claims which may, prior to that date, have been submitted to arbitration under its provisions.
In witness whereof, the Plenipotentiaries and Delegates sign this Convention and affix to it the Seal of the Fourth International American Conference.
Made and signed in the city of Buenos Aires, on the eleventh day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, in the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French languages, and filed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in order that certified copies may be taken to be forwarded through the appropriate Diplomatic channels to each one of the Signatory Nations.
* ↑ See conventions of July 29, 1899 (TS 392), ante, p. 230, and Oct. 18, 1907 (TS 536), ante, p. 577.
* ↑ TS 443, ante, p. 347.
* ↑ TS 574, ante, p. 541.
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