STATE PAPERS. 
marked: , The said Commission- 
ers shall, by a report or declara- 
tion, under their hands and seals, 
designate the boundary aforesaid, 
state their decision on the points 
thus referred to them, and parti- 
cularise the latitude and longi- 
tude of the most north-western 
point of the Lake of the Woods, 
and of such other parts of the said 
‘boundary as they may deem pro- 
per. And both parties agree to 
consider such designation and de- 
cision as final and conclusive. 
-And in the event of the said two 
Commissioners differing, or both, 
or either of them, refusing, de- 
clining, or -wilfully omitting to 
act, such reports, declarations, or 
statements, shall be made by 
them, or either of them, and such 
reference to a friendly Sovereign 
or State shall be made in all re- 
spects as in the latter part of the 
fourth article is contained, and in 
as full a manner as if the same 
was herein repeated, 
Art. VIII.—The several boards 
of two Commissioners, mentioned 
in the four preceding articles, 
shall respectively have power to 
appoint a secretary, and to em- 
ploy such surveyors or other per- 
sons as they shall judge neces- 
sary. Duplicates ofall their respec- 
tive reports, declarations, state- 
ments, and decisions, and of their 
accounts, and of the journal of 
their proceedings, shall be deli- 
vered by them to the agents of 
his Britannic Majesty, and to the 
agents of the United States, who 
may be respectively appointed 
and authorized to manage the bu- 
siness on behalf of their respec- 
tive governments. The said Com- 
missioners shall be respectively 
paid in such manner as shall be 
the boards 
aforesaid, or of the sovereign or 
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agreed between the two contract» 
ing parties, such agreement being 
to be settled at the time of the 
exchange of the ratifications of 
this treaty. And all other ex- 
penses attending the said com- 
missions shall be defrayed equally 
by the two parties. And in the 
case of death, sickness, resigna~ 
tion, or necessary absence, the 
place of every such Commissioner 
respectively shall be supplied in 
the same manner as such Com- 
missioner was first appointed,and 
the new Commissioner shall take 
the same oath or affirmation, and 
do the same duties. 
It is further agreed between 
the two contracting parties, that . 
in case of any of the islands men- 
tioned in any of the preceding 
articles which were in the posses+ 
sion of one of the parties prior to 
the commencement of the present 
war between the two countties, 
should, by the decision of any of 
of Commissioners 
state so referred to as in the four 
next preceding articles contained, 
fall within the dominions of the 
other party, all grants of land 
made previous to the commence- 
ment of the war by the party hav- 
ing had such possession, shall be 
as valid as if such island or islands 
had by such decision or decisions 
been adjudged to be within the 
dominions of the party having 
had such possession. 
Art. IX.—The United States of 
America engage to put an end, 
immediately after the ratification 
of the present Treaty, to hostili- 
ties with all the tribes or nations 
of Indians with whom they may 
be at war at the time of such rati- 
fication, and forthwith to restore 
