14: THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



New Brunswick, and the Colony of Prince Edward s 

 Island [including the Colony of Newfoundland by 

 Article XXXII.]. 



Articles XXVI. to XXXIII. inclusive provide for 

 the reciprocal free navigation of certain rivers, includ 

 ing the River St. Lawrence ; for the common use of 

 certain canals in the Canadian Dominion and in the 

 United States ; for the free navigation of Lake Mich 

 igan ; for reciprocal free transit across the territory 

 either of the United States or of the Canadian Do 

 minion, as the case may be: the whole, subject to 

 legislative provisions hereafter to be enacted by the 

 several Governments. 



Articles XXXIV. to XLII. provide for determining 

 by arbitration which of two different channels be 

 tween Vancouver s Island and the main-land consti 

 tutes the true boundary -line in that region of the 

 territories of the United States and Great Britain. 



Each of these five distinct classes of questions will 

 receive separate consideration. 



