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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2017
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1 See Department of State Publication No. 347, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Water-way Treaty.
2 See Chacko, The International Joint Commission (1932), p. 96 ff., 212 ff.
3 Cf. also the Delaware River Joint Commission, authorized by Pub. Res. No. 26, 72nd Cong. June 14, 1932. Mention should also be made of the Greek Refugees Settlement Commission, “established as a legal person competent to sue and be sued in its own name, to hold and alienate property of all kinds, and generally to perform any acts which can be performed by a corporation possessing full legal personality under the law of Greece.” See texts in Hudson, International Legislation, Vol. II, Nos. 99–99e, p. 1067 ff.
4 By Article IX of the treaty, “each party is hereby released from responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property in the territory of the other, which may be caused by any action authorized or provided for by this treaty,” but “they will severally assume responsibility and expense for the acquisition of any lands or interests in land in their respective territories which may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this treaty.” Under par. (h) of Schedule A, the expenses of the “members” of the Commission shall be paid by their respective governments, but “ all other expenses of the Commission shall be defrayed out of the funds provided under the terms of Article III “which state that the United States undertakes to furnish the funds.
5 See this Journal, White, “Constitutionality of the Proposed International Prize Court Considered from the Standpoint of the United States,” Vol. II (1908), p. 490; Scott, “The International Court of Prize,” Vol. V (1811), p. 302 at pp. 308–314; Wright, “Treaties and the Constitutional Separation of Powers,” Vol. XII (1918), p. 64 at pp. 87–89.