ARGUMENT OP SIR WILLIAM ROBSON. 1901 



Then the next reference, p. 18, where President Adams is examined 

 on oath by a committee in reference to some treaty : 



" John Adams, President of the United States of America, ap- 

 peared before the Board and (being sworn) was examined as a wit- 

 ness to the following Interrogatories, viz: Interrogatories by the 

 Agent of the United States. 



" ' 1st. What Plan or Plans, Map or Maps, were before the Com- 

 missioners, who formed the Treaty of Peace in 1783, between His 

 Britannic Majesty and the United States of America ? 



"Answer. ' Mitchell's map was the only map or plan, which was 

 used by the Commissioners at their public Conferences, though other 

 maps were occasionally consulted by the American Commissioners 

 at their lodgings.' ' : 



I remember now, this evidence was given, I think, in a boundary 

 arbitration which was held before the King of the Netherlands, in 



1829 

 1150 THE PRESIDENT: That is also a quotation from Moore? 



SIR W. ROBSON : They are all from Moore that I am giving 

 now ; that is on p. 18, and Mr. Adams says later on p. 19 : 



" No other plan than Mitchell's map that I recollect." 

 was used. 



" Documents from the public offices in England were brought over 

 and laid before is ; " 



And so on. But he says that Mitchell's map was the one they used. 



Again, Moore on p. 89 says : 



" The commissioners under Article V of the Treaty of Ghent " 



That was 1814 ; I should have given that 



" were unable to agree even on a general topographical map of the 

 territory in dispute. The convention supplied this defect. It pro- 

 vided that Mitchell's map, by which the framers of the treaty of 

 1783 were ' acknowledged to have regulated their joint and official 

 proceedings,' and a map marked A, which had been agreed on as a 

 delineation of the water courses and of the disputed boundary lines, 

 should be annexed to the statements of the contracting parties, and 

 should be the only maps to be considered as evidence, mutually 

 acknowledged by the contracting parties, of the topography of the 

 country." 



The article which is there referred to is article 4 of the treaty of 

 1827 which I have before me that was the treaty which was re- 

 ferred to the arbitrament of the King of the Netherlands as to the 

 boundaries. This is from " Treaties of the United States and For- 

 eign Powers," published in 1873, p. 368 it does not give the number 

 of the volume, but the article is : 



" The map called Mitchell's map by which the framers of the Treaty 

 of 1783 are acknowledged to have regulated their joint and official 

 proceedings . . . agreed upon by contracting parties." 



