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agreed that measures shall be taken in concert between His Majesty's 

 Government in America and the Government of the United States, 

 for making a joint survey of the said river from one degree of lati- 

 tude below the falls of St. Anthony, to the principal source or sources 

 of the said river, and also of the part, adjacent thereto; and that if, 

 on the result of such survey, it should appear that the said river 

 would not be intersected by such a line as is above mentioned, the two 

 parties will thereupon proceed, by amicable negotiation, to regulate 

 the boundary line in that quarter, as well as all other points to be 

 adjusted between the said parties, according to justice and mutual 

 convenience, and in conformity to the intent of said treaty. 



ARTICLE V. 



Whereas doubts have arisen what river was truly intended under 

 the name of the River St. Croix, mentioned in the said treaty of 

 peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described; that 

 question shall be referred to the final decision of commissioners to be 

 appointed in the following manner, viz : 



One commissioner shall be named by His Majesty, and one by the 

 President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent 

 of the Senate thereof, and the said two commissioners shall agree on 

 the choice of a third ; or if they cannot so agree, they shall each pro- 

 pose one person, and of the two names so proposed, one shall be 

 drawn by lot in the presence of the two original commissioners. And 

 the three commissioners so appointed shall be sworn, impartially to 

 examine and decide the said question, according to such evidence as 

 shall respectively be laid before them on the part of the British Gov- 

 ernment and of the United States. The said commissioners shall 

 meet at Halifax, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place 

 or places as they shall think fit. They shall have power to appoint a 

 secretary, and to employ such surveyors or other persons as they 

 shall judge necessary. The said commissioners shall, by a declara- 

 tion, under their hands and seals, decide what river is the River St. 

 Croix, intended by the treaty. The said declaration shall contain a 

 description of the said river, and shall particularise the latitude and 

 longitude of its mouth and of its source. Duplicates of this declara- 

 tion and of the statements of their accounts, and of the journal of 

 their proceedings, shall be delivered by them to the agent of His 

 Majesty, and to the agent of the United States, who may be respec- 

 tively appointed and authorised to manage the business on behalf of 

 the respective Governments. And both parties agree to consider such 

 decision as final and conclusive, so as that the same shall never there- 

 after be called into question, or made the subject of dispute or dif- 

 ference between them. 



ARTICLE VI. 



Whereas it is alleged by divers British merchants and others His 

 Majesty's subjects, that debts, to a considerable amount, which 



18 were bona fide contracted before the peace, still remain owing 

 to them by citizens or inhabitants of the United States, and 



that by the operation of various lawful impediments since the peace, 



