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Show LAKE OF THE WOODS CONVENTION 397 Each shall likewise assume responsibility for any damage or injury which may hereafter result to it or to its inhabitants from the regula- tion of the level of Lake of the Woods in the manner provided for in the present Convention. article x The Governments of the United States and Canada shall each be released from responsibility for any claims or expenses arising in the territory of the other in connection with the matters provided for in Articles VII, VIII, and IX. In consideration, however, of the undertakings of the United States as set forth in Article VIII, the Government of Canada shall pay to the Government of the United States the sum of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) in currency of the United States. Should this sum prove insufficient to cover the cost of such undertakings one-half of the excess of such cost over the said sum shall, if the expenditure be incurred within five years of the coming into force of the present Convention, be paid by the Government of Canada. ARTICLE XI No diversion shall henceforth be made of any waters from the Lake of the Woods watershed to any other watershed except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respec- tive territories and with the approval of the International Joint Commission. ARTICLE XII The present Convention shall be ratified in accordance with the constitutional methods of the High Contracting Parties and shall take effect on the exchange of the ratifications, which shall take place at Washington or Ottawa as soon as possible. In Faith Whereof, the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and affixed thereto their respective seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the 24th day of February, 1925. [seal] Charles Evans Hughes [seal] Ernest Lapointe PROTOCOL At the moment of signing the Convention between the United States of America, and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Dominion of Canada, regard- ing the regulation of the level of Lake of the Woods, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed as follows: 1. The plans of the necessary works for the enlargement of the out- flow capacity of the outlets of Lake of the Woods provided for in Article VII of the Convention, as well as of the necessary works and dams for controlling and regulating the outflow of the water, shall be referred to the International Lake of the Woods Control Board for an engineering report upon the suitability and sufficiency for the pur- pose of permitting the discharge of not less than forty-seven thousand cubic feet of water per second (47,000 c.f.s.) when the level of the |