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States: provided that nothing in the present article shall be con- 

 strued to extend to the northwest coast of America, or to the terri- 

 tories belonging to or claimed by either party on the continent of 

 America to the westward of the Stony mountains. 



Article 5. 



As the British commissioners would agree to make it. 



It is agreed that a line drawn due north or south (as the case may 

 require) from the most northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods, 

 until it shall intersect the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, and 

 from the point of such intersection, due west, along and with the said 

 parallel, shall be the dividing line between His Majesty's territories 

 and those of the United States to the westward of the said lake, as 

 far as their said respective territories extend in that quarter; and 

 that the said line shall, to that extent, form the southern boundary 

 of His Majesty's said territories and the northern boundary of the 

 said territories of the United States: provided that nothing in the 

 present article shall be construed to extend to the northwest coast 

 of America, or to the territories belonging to or claimed by either 

 party on the continent of America to the westward of the Stony 

 mountains. 



