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States, and the southern boundary of the territories of His Britannic 

 Majesty, from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. 



Art. 3. It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either 

 party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony 

 Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the 

 navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the 

 term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present con- 

 vention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it 

 being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to 

 the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting 

 parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken 

 to alTect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the 

 said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that 

 respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves. 



Art. 4. All the provisions of the convention " to regulate the com- 

 merce between the territories of the United States and of His 

 Britannic Majesty," concluded at London on the third day of July, 

 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, 

 with the exception of the clause which limited its duration to four 

 years, and excepting, also, so far as the same was affected by the 

 declaration of His Majesty respecting the Island of St. Helena, are 

 hereby extended and continued in force for the term of ten years 

 from the date of the signature of the present convention, in the 

 same manner as if all the provisions of the said convention were 

 herein specially recited. 



Art. 5. Whereas it was agreed, by the first article of the treaty of 

 Ghent, that " all territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken 

 by either party from the other during the war, or which may be 

 taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands 

 hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without 

 causing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or 

 other public property originally captured in the said forts or places, 

 and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifica- 

 tions of this treaty, or any slaves or other private property:" and 

 whereas, under the aforesaid article, the United States claim for 

 their citizens, and as their private property, the restitution of. or 

 full compensation for, all slaves who, at the date of the exchange 

 of the ratifications of the said treaty, were in any territory, places, 

 or possessions whatsoever, directed by the said treaty to be restored 

 to the United States, but then still occupied by the British forces, 

 whether such slaves were, at the date aforesaid, on shore, or on 

 board any British vessel lying in waters within the territory or 

 jurisdiction of the United States: and whereas differences have 

 arisen whether, by the true intent and meaning of the aforesaid 

 article of the treaty of Ghent, the United States are entitled to the 

 restoration, of, or full compensation for, all or any slaves, as above 

 described, the high contracting parties hereby agree to refer the 

 said differences to some friendly Sovereign or State, to be named 

 for that purpose; and the high contracting parties further engage to 

 consider the decision of such friendly Sovereign or State to be final 

 and conclusive on all the matters referred. 



Art. 6. This convention, when the same shall have been duly 

 ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the 

 advice and consent of their Senate, and by His Britannic Majesty, 



