File No. 924/256.

Supplementary protocol.

The United States of America and the Republic of Nicaragua, through their respective Plenipotentiaries, Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and Señor Doctor Don Pedro Gonzales, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua on Special Mission, being duly authorized thereto, and Señor Doctor Don Rodolfo Espinosa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United States, have agreed upon and concluded the following protocol supplementary to the protocol signed this day for the submission to arbitration of the Emery case.

Sole Article.

It is understood and agreed between the High Contracting Parties that for the purposes of arbitration provided for in the protocol signed this day submitting to arbitration the claim of the George D. Emery Company against the Government of Nicaragua, all the dates and periods of time therein indicated, except the period provided for in Article IX, shall for the purposes of such arbitration and for the preparation therefor be computed as if the said protocol of arbitration had been signed four months from this date.

In Witness Whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries of the two Governments have signed and sealed the present Supplementary Protocol in duplicate in the English and Spanish languages.


Philander C. Knox
, [seal.]
Pedro Gonzáles.
[seal.]
Rodolfo Espinosa.
[seal.]