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Show 404 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES dates inclusive, or to less than fifty thousand cubic feet per second at any other time; the minimum rate of fifty thousand cubic feet per second to be increased when additional water is required for flushing ice above the Falls or through the rapids below the Falls. No diver- sion of the amounts of water, specified in this Article to flow over the Falls, shall be made for power purposes between tike Falls and Lake Ontario. article v All water specified in Article III of this Treaty in excess of water reserved for scenic purposes in Article IV may be diverted for power purposes. ARTICLE VI The waters made available for power purposes by the provisions of this Treaty shall be divided equally between the United States of America and Canada. ARTICLE VII The United States of America and Canada shall each designate a representative who, acting jointly, shall ascertain and determine the amounts of water available for the purposes of this Treaty, and shall record the same, and shall also record the amounts of water used for power diversions. ARTICLE VIII Until such time as there are facilities in the territory of one party to use its full share of the diversions of water for power purposes agreed upon in this Treaty, the other party may use the portion of that share for the use of which facilities are not available. ARTICLE IX Neither party shall be responsible for physical injury or damage to persons or property in the territory of the other which may be caused by any act authorized or provided for by this Treaty. ARTICLE X This treaty shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification thereof exchanged at Ottawa. The Treaty shall come into force upon the date of the exchange of ratifications and continue in force for a period of fifty years and thereafter until one year from the day on which either party shall give notice to the other party of its intention of terminating the Treaty. In" Witness Whereof, the undersigned plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty. Done in duplicate at Washington this twenty-seventh day of February, 1950. For the United States of America : Dean Acheson For Canada: H. H. Wrong |