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CHAPTER IV. 



THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY -LINE. 



PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. 



THE Articles of the Treaty from XXXIV. to XLII. 



inclusive dispose of the long -standing dispute be 

 tween the United States and Great Britain regarding 

 the true water-line by which the Territory of Wash 

 ington is separated from Vancouver s Island. 



The subject of the controversy, and the agreement 

 for its termination, are set forth as follows : 



&quot; Whereas it was stipulated by Article I. of the treaty con 

 cluded at Washington on the loth of June, 1846, between the 

 United States and Her Britannic Majesty, that the line of 

 boundary between the territories of the United States and those 

 of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the forty-ninth 

 parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been as 

 certained, should be continued westward along the said paral 

 lel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which sepa 

 rates the continent from Vancouver s Island, and thence south 

 erly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, 

 to the Pacific Ocean ; and whereas the Commissioners appoint 

 ed by the high contracting Parties to determine that portion 

 of the boundary which runs southerly through the middle of 

 the channel aforesaid, 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 Rosario Straits, and the Gov 

 ernment of the United States claims that it should be run 

 through the Canal de Haro, it is agreed that the respective 



