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United States, upon the St. Lawrence, the Great 

 Lakes, and the rivers connecting the same, to an- 

 other port, or place, within the territory of the United 

 States as aforesaid : Provided, That a portion of such 

 transportation is made through the Dominion of Can- 

 ada by land-carriage and in bond, under such rules 

 and regulations as may be agreed upon between the 

 Government of her Britannic Majesty and the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States. Citizens of the United 

 States mav for the like period carry in United States 

 vessels, without payment of duty, goods, wares, or 

 merchandise, from one port or place within the pos- 

 sessions of her Britannic Majesty in North America 

 to another port or place within the said possessions : 

 Provided, That a portion of such transportation is 

 made through the territory of the United States by 

 land-carriage, and in bond, under such rules and 

 regulations as may be agreed upon between the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States and the Government 

 of her Britannic Majesty. The Government of the 

 United States further engages not to impose any ex- 

 port duties on goods, wares, or merchandise carried 

 under this article through the territory of the United 

 States, and her Britannic Majesty's Government en- 

 gages to urge the Parliament of the Dominion of 

 Canada, and the Legislatures of the other colonies, 

 not to impose any export duties on g_oods, wares, or 

 merchandise carried under this article. And the 

 Government of the United States may, in case such 

 export duties are imposed by the Dominion of Can- 

 ada, suspend, during the period that such duties are 

 imposed, the right of carrying granted under this 

 article in favor of the subjects of her Britannic Ma- 

 jesty. The Government of the United States may 

 also suspend the right of carrying granted in favor 

 of the subjects of lier Britannic Majesty, under this 

 article, in case the Dominion of Canada should at 

 any time deprive the citizens of the United States of 

 the use of the canals in said Dominion on terms of 

 equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion, as 

 provided in Article 27. 



ART. 31. The Government of her Britannic Majesty 

 further engages to urge upon the Parliament of the 

 Dominion of Canada and the Legislature of New 

 Brunswick that no export or other duty shall be 

 levied on lumber or timber of any kind cut on that 

 portion of the American territory in the State of 

 Maine watered by the river St. John and its tribu- 

 taries, and floatecl down that river to the sea, when 

 the same is shipped to the United States from the 

 Province of New Brunswick ; and in case any such 

 export or other duty continues to be levied after the 

 expiration of one year from the date of the exchange 

 of the ratifications of this treaty, it is agreed that the 

 Government of the United States may suspend the 

 right of carrying hereinbefore granted under article 

 No. 30 of this treaty for such period as such export 

 or other duty may be levied. 



ART. 32. It is further agreed that the provisions 

 and stipulations of Articles 18 to 25 of this treaty, 

 inclusive, shall extend to the Colony of Newfound- 

 land, so far as they are applicable. *But, if the Im- 

 perial Parliament, the Legislature of Newfoundland, 

 or the Congress of the United States shall not em- 

 brace the Colony of Newfoundland in their laws 

 enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, 

 then this article shall be of no effect; but the omis- 

 sion to make provision, by law, to give it effect, by 

 cither of the legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in 

 any way impair any other articles of this treaty. 



ART. 33. The foregoing articles, 18 to 25, inclusive, 

 and Article 30 of this treaty, shall take effect as soon 

 as the laws required to carry them into operation 

 shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament 

 of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and 

 by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, on the 

 one hand, and by the Congress of the United States 

 on the other. Such assent having been given, the 

 naid articles shall remain in force for the period of 

 ten years from the date at which they may come into 



operation ; and further, until the expiration of two 

 years after either of the high contracting parties 

 shall have given notice to the other of its wish to 

 terminate the same ; each of the high contracting 

 parties being at liberty to give such notice to the 

 other at the end of the said period of ten j'ears, or at 

 any time afterward. 



THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY. 



ART. 34. Whcrtas it was stipulated by Article 1 

 of the treaty concluded at Washington on the 15th 

 of June, 1846, between the United States of America 

 and her Britannic Majesty, that the line of boundary 

 between the territory of the United States and those 

 of her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the 49th 

 parallel of north latitude up to which it had already 

 been ascertained, should be continued westward 

 along the said parallel of north latitude to the middle 

 of the channel which separates the continent from 

 Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly along the 

 middle of the said channel, and of Fuca Strait to the 

 Pacific Ocean ; and whereas the commissioners ap- 

 pointed by the two high contracting parties to de- 

 termine that portion of the boundary which runs 

 southerly through the middle of the channel afore- 

 said were unable to agree upon the same ; and 

 whereas the Government of her Britannic Majesty 

 claims that such boundary-line should, under the 

 terms of the treaty above recited, be run through the 

 Eosario Straits, and the Government of the United 

 States claims that it should be run through the Canal 

 De Haro, it is agreed that the respective claims of 

 the Government of her Britannic Majesty and of the 

 Government of the United States shall be submitted 

 to the arbitration and award of his Majesty the Em- 

 peror of Germany, who, having regard to the above- 

 mentioned article of the said treaty, shall decide 

 thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those 

 claims is most in accordance with, the true interpre- 

 tation of the treaty of June 15, 1846. 



ART. 35. The award of his Majesty the Emperor 

 of Germany; shall be considered as absolutely final 

 and conclusive, and full effect shall be given to such 

 award, without any objection, evasion, or delay 

 whatsoever. Such decision shall be given in writ- 

 ing ; and dated. It shall be in whatsoever form his 

 Majesty may choose to adopt. It shall be delivered 

 to the representatives or other public agents of the 

 United States and of Great Britain, respectively, who 

 may be actually at Berlin, and shall be considered as 

 operative from the day of the date of the delivery 

 thereof. 



ART. 36. The written or printed case of each of 

 the two parties, accompanied by the evidence offered 

 in support of the same, shall be laid before his Ma- 

 jesty the Emperor of Germany within six months 

 from the date of the exchange of the ratification of 

 this treaty, and a copy of such case and evidence 

 shall be communicated by each party to the other 

 through their respective representatives at Berlin. 

 The high contracting powers may include in the 

 evidence to be considered by the arbitrator such 

 documents, official correspondence, and other official 

 or public statements bearing on the subject of the 

 reference as they may consider necessary to the sup- 

 port of their respective cases. After the written or 

 printed case shall have been communicated by each 

 party to the other, each party shall have the power 

 of drawing up and laying before the arbitrators a 

 second and definitive statement, if it think fit to do 

 so, in reply to the case of the other party so commu- 

 nicated, which definitive statement shall be so laid 

 before the arbitrator, and also be mutually commu- 

 nicated, in the same manner as aforesaid, by each 

 party to the other within six months from the elate 

 of laying the first statement of the case before the 

 arbitrator. 



ART. 37. If in the case submitted to the arbitrator 

 either party shall specify or allude to any report or 

 document in its own exclusive possession, without 



