242 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



of Great Britain shall enjoy the use of the St. Clair 

 Flats Canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants 

 of the United States [Art. XXVII.]. 



[c] The United States engage to urge on the State 

 Governments, and Great Britain engages to urge on 

 the Dominion of Canada, to secure each to the sub 

 jects or citizens of the other the use. on equal terms 

 of the several canals connected with the lakes or riv 

 ers traversed by or contiguous to the boundary-line 

 between the possessions of the high contracting Par 

 ties [Art. XXVII.]. 



All these are provisions which bring the United 

 States and the Dominion of Canada into fixed rela 

 tions independent of and superior to all questions of 

 Governments. 



2. Of temporary provisions we have the following: 



\a\ The navigation of Lake Michigan is declared 

 free and open for the purposes of commerce to the 

 subjects of Great Britain [Art. XXVIII.]. 



[&] Goods, wares, and merchandise arriving at the 

 ports of New York, Boston, Portland, or such other 

 ports as the President may designate, and destined 

 for the British possessions in North America, may be 

 entered at the proper custom-house without payment 

 of duties, and conveyed in transit through the terri 

 tory of the United States [Art. XXIX.]. 



And, in like manner, goods, wares, and merchandise 

 arriving at any of the ports of the British possessions 

 in North America, and destined for the United States, 

 may be entered at the proper custom - house, and 

 conveyed in transit without the payment of duties 



