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ARTICLE XXXII. 



It is farther agreed that the provisions and stipulations of Articles XVIII. 

 to XXV. of this Treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the Colony of Newfoundland 

 so far as they are applicable. But if the Imperial Parliament, the Legislature 

 of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the 

 Colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing arti 

 cles into effect, then this article shall be of no effect ; but the omission to make 

 provision by law to give it effect, by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, 

 shall not in any way impair any other articles of this Treaty. 



ARTICLE XXXIII. 



The foregoing Articles XVIII. to XXV., inclusive, and Article XXX. of 

 this Treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to cany 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 Isl 

 and on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other. 

 Such assent having been given, the said 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 years or at any time afterward. 



ARTICLE XXXIV. 



Whereas it was stipulated by Article I. of the Treaty concluded at Washing 

 ton on the loth of June, 1846, between the United States and Her Britannic 

 Majesty, that the line of boundary between the territories of t-he 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 ascertained, should be con 

 tinued westward along the said parallel of north latitude &quot; to the middle of the 

 channel which separates the continent from Vancouver s Island, and thence 

 southerly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, to the 

 Pacific Ocean;&quot; and whereas the Commissioners appointed by the two 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 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 the United States and of the Govern 

 ment of Her Britannic Majesty shall be submitted to the arbitration and award 



