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(8) The witnesses on the Reference shall, if the Tribunal think fit, be
examined on oath or solemn affirmation.
(/?) The award to be made by the Tribunal shall be final and binding on the
parties and the persons claiming under them respectively. There shall be no
appeal against the Award.
(/) The cost of Reference and Award shall be in the discretion of the Tribunal
who may direct to and by whom and in what manner those costs or any part thereof
shall be paid.
(/) In giving a decision the Tribunal shall specify an adequate period of delay
during which the party against whom the decision is given shall conform to the
decision and that party shall be in default only if that party has failed to conform
to the decision prior to the expiry of that period and not otherwise.
(k) The place of the Tribunal shall be such as may be agreed by the parties and
in default of agreement shall be in London.
(/) English law shall apply to all matters of procedure arising in connection
with any arbitration or other proceeding under the foregoing provisions of this
clause.
Article XXIII
In the event of any disagreement regarding the meaning or interpretation of
anything hereinbefore contained the English text shall be regarded as correct.

Dated this 29th day of December, 1934, and executed in three parts all having
equal validity.
The First Schedule hereinbefore referred to.

All that the territory delineated and described as to measurements upon the
map or plan attached hereto and forming the Second Schedule hereto.
The Second Schedule hereinbefore referred to.

See attached plan sealed and signed by the various parties hereto.

His Excellency the SHEIKH OF
BAHREIN.
(Seal.)

THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM
COMPANY LIMITED
By (signed) J. M. Russell,
By (signed) F. A. Davies,

Its Attorneys-in-Fact.

Before me,

G. Loch,
British Political Agent in Bahrein.