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tice of England; Sir Louis Amable Jette, K.C.M.G., 

 retired judge of the Supreme Court of Quebec, and 

 A. B. Aylesworth, K.C., of Toronto. This Tribunal 

 met in London on September 3, under the Presi- 

 dency of Lord Alverstone. The proceedings were 

 expeditious, and marked by a friendly and conscien- 

 tious spirit. The respective cases, counter cases, 

 and arguments presented the issues clearly and fully. 

 On the 2Oth of October a majority of the Tribunal 

 reached and signed an agreement on all the ques- 

 tions submitted by the terms of the Convention. By 

 this award the right of the United States to the 

 control of a continuous strip or border of the main- 

 land shore, skirting all the tide-water inlets and sin- 

 uosities of the coast, is confirmed; the entrance to 

 Portland Canal (concerning which legitimate doubt 

 appeared) is defined as passing by Tongass Inlet 

 and to the northwestward of Wales and Pearse Isl- 

 ands ; a line is drawn from the head of Portland 

 Canal to the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude ; and 

 the interior border line of the strip is fixed by lines 

 connecting certain mountain summits lying between 

 Portland Canal and Mount St. Elias, and running 

 along the crest of the divide separating the coast 

 slope from the inland watershed at the only part of 

 the frontier where the drainage ridge approaches the 

 coast within the distance of ten marine leagues stip- 

 ulated by the treaty as the extreme width of the 

 strip around the heads of Lynn Canal and its 

 branches. 



While the line so traced follows the provisional 



