شرح مکتوب یا چاپی ادعای هر یک از طرفین، به همراه مدارک ارائهشده در تأیید آن، باید ظرف مدت شش ماه از تاریخ مبادله اسناد تصویب این معاهده، به پیشگاه اعلیحضرت امپراتور آلمان تقدیم گردد؛ همچنین نسخهای از این شرح و مدارک باید توسط هر یک از طرفین و از طریق نمایندگانشان در برلین، به طرف دیگر تسلیم شود.
The written or printed case of each of the two parties, accompanied by the evidence offered in support of the same, shall be laid before His Majesty the Emperor of Germany within six months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, and a copy of such case and evidence shall be communicated by each party to the other, through their respective representatives at Berlin. The high contracting parties may include in the evidence to be considered by the arbitrator such documents, official correspondence, and other official or public statements bearing on the subject of the reference as they may consider necessary to the support of their respective cases. After the written or printed case shall have been communicated by each party to the other, each party shall have the power of drawing up and laying before the arbitrator a second and definitive statement, if it think fit to do so, in reply to the case of the other party so communicated, which definitive statement shall be so laid before the arbitrator, and also be mutually communicated in the same manner as aforesaid, by each party to the other, within six months from the date of laying the first statement of the case before the arbitrator. Article XXXVII.