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mutually agreed "to submit"[crossed out] at the request of either party
to submit their disagreements to three arbitrators like
chosen as provided in said section.

In other words the parties before you met as enemies
in a period of truce they examined their differences
as found them capable of amicable adjusment [adjustment]
they departed as friend and allies and bound by a
contract to a common end and provided that if they
differed as the true intent and meaning of that contract
three disinterested men should settle such differences
and to such settlement each would assent.

The meaning of this portion of the contract is that each
shall be spared, the delay, vexation and expense of
a contest in Court, there shall be no technical
advantage to either, that each shall fully and
fairly present his case, neither seeking any advantage
"but"[crossed out] that the abitrators [arbitrators] shall do equity between them
and carry out "not so much" [underlined] the letter of the contract
but the true intention of the parties to be evidence
not only by their words by their conduct.