34 TREATIES. 



TREATY OF 1818 BET^WEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT 

 BRITAIN, RESPECTING FISHERIES, BOUNDARIES, AND RESTORA- 

 TION OF SLAVES. 



[Extrart.] 



Article II. 



It is agreed tluit a line drawn lioni the most northwestern point of 

 the Lake of the Woods, along the forty-ninth parallel or north latitnde, 

 or, if the said point shall not be in the forty-ninth ]>arallel of north lati- 

 tude, then that a line drawn from the saicl point due north or south as 

 the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of 

 north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along 

 and with the said parallel shall be the line of demarcation between the 

 territories of the United States, and those of His Britannic ]\Iajest3^, and 

 that the said line shall form the nortliern boundary of the said terri- 

 tories of the United States, and the southern boundary of the territo- 

 ries of His Britannic Majesty, from the Laii:e of the Woods to the Stony 

 Mountains. 



Aeticle III. 



It is agreed, that any country that maybe claimed by either party on 

 the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony ]\Iouu tains, 

 shall, together with its harbours, bays and creeks, and the navigation 

 of all rivers within the same, be free and oi)en,for the term often years 

 from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, 

 citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being Avell understood, that 

 this agreement is not to be construed to the pre^judice of any claim, which 

 either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the 

 said country, nor shall it be taken to atfe(;t the claims of any other 

 Power or State to any part of the said country; the only object of the 

 high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and 

 differences amongst themselves. 



TREATY OF AMITY. SETTLEMENT, AND LIMITS OF 1819, BETWEEN 

 THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. 



AKTICLE III. 



The boundary line betAveen the two countries, west of the Mississippi, 

 shall begin on the Gulph of .Mexico, at the Jiu)uth of the river Sabine, 

 in the sea, continuing north, along the western bank of that river, to 

 the 32d degree of latitude; thence, by a line due liorth, to the degree 

 of latitude where it strikes the ]\io Koxo of Xatchitoches, or Red River; 

 then following the c(mrse to the Rio Koxo westward, to the degree of 

 longitude 100 west from London and 2.5 from Washington; then, cross- 

 ing the said Red River, an<l nmniiig thence, by a line due north, to the 

 river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the 



