'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [‎85v] (189/208)

Whereas in virtue of that Compromis were named as Arbitrators,
by the Government of His Britannic Majesty:
Mr. Melville W. Fuller , Chief Justice of the United States of
America, and
by the Government of the French Republic:
Jonkheer A. F. be Savornin Lohman , Doctor of Law, former
Minister of the Interior in the Netherlands, former Professor at the free
University at Amsterdam, Member of the Second Chamber of the States-
General,
Whereas the two Arbitrators not having agreed within one month
from the date of their appointment in the choice of an Umpire, and
that choice having then been intrusted in virtue of article 1 of the
Compromis to the King of Italy, His Majesty has named Umpire:
Mr. H. Lammasch , Doctor of Law, Professor at the University at
Vienna , Member of the Upper House of the Austrian Parliament,
Whereas the Cases, Counter-Cases and Arguments have been duly
communicated to the Tribunal and to the Parties ,
Whereas the Tribunal has carefully examined these documents, and
the supplementary observations which were delivered to it by the two
Parties;
AS TO THE FIRST QUESTION:
Whereas generally speaking it belongs to every Sovereign to decide
to whom he will accord the right to fly his flag and to prescribe the
rules governing such grants, and whereas therefore the granting of the
French flag to subjects of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat in itself
constitutes no attack on the independence of the Sultan,
Whereas nevertheless a Sovereign may be limited by treaties in the
exercise of this right, and whereas the Tribunal is authorized in virtue of
article 48 of the Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes
of July 29, 1899 and of article 5 of the Compromis of October 13^ 1904 "to
declare its competence in interpreting the compromis as well as the
other treaties which may be invoked in the case, and in applying the
principles of international law", and whereas therefore the question arises,
under what conditions Powers which have acceded to the General Act of