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He also suggests the possibility of a proposal on the part of the 
United States to accept these islands in exchange for an alteration in 
the north line from the source of the St. Croix, a subject to which we 
shall return later. Again in his letter of Dec. 26, 1798, to Governor 
Carleton (Ms. in my possession), he says :— 
Upon the subject of the Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, to all of which 
the right of His Majesty seems to be fully confirmed by the late decision of 
the Commissioners respecting the mouth of the River St. Croix.! I beg leave 
to observe that altho by insisting throughout the arguments delivered to the 
commisioners in support of His Majesty’s claim that the mouth of the river 
was at Joes Point I had principally in view the question of the Islands and 
in several places incidentally asserted His Majesty’s right to all these islands 
under the treaty of Peace, yet the Agent of the United States did not seem to 
be aware during the discussion of the case that the right to the islands would 
be at all affected by the decision respecting the mouth of the river, and there- 
fore did not in any respect combat any of my arguments upon this point. 
He then adds that the American agent finally took alarm and filed 
a memorial with the commissioners claiming 
There can be no pretensions that the Treaty of Peace contemplated the 
Bay of Passimaquody as a section of the Bay of Fundy, because that on such 
an idea there would be an important limb of the United States left without an 
express but depending upon an implied boundary on the East when it was 
clearly the intention of the parties to fix an indisputable boundary for the 
whole; that the Commissioners are to ascertain the latitude and longitude 
of the mouth of the river, but the mouth is to be in the Bay of Fundy, that 
he conceived the mouth of the Scudiac in the Bay of Fundy to be between 
Letete Point on the East and Deer Island on the west, or between Deer Island 
on the East and Moose Island on the west. That being under strong appre- 
hension that a different decision may hereafter be considered as not a com- 
plete execution of the Commision nor a complete decision between the parties, 
he considered it to be his indispensable duty to prefer this memorial and 
request that the same may be received and entered on the Journals of the 
Board. 
Chipman further describes in his letter the discussion following 
the filing of this memorial, and remarks that on the commissioners 
stating they could not bring the mouth of the St. Croix below Joes 
Point, 
The Agent of the United States with some degree of asperity observed 
that the consequences would be that the British Subjects in that part of the 
Country would immediately attempt to take forcible possession of Moose 
Island, and that the result would be very unpleasant. 

which is founded solely in this violently usurped possession in the year 1791. 
(MS. in my possession.) 
* He means of course that the decision did not affect the question of own- 
ership, leaving it to be decided on the ground of the ancient limits of Nova 
Scotia, which included them. 
