14 ■ THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



New Brunswick, and tLc Colony of Prince Edward's 

 Island [including the Colony of Newfoundland by 

 Article XXXII.]. 



Articles XXVI. to XXXIII. inclusive provide for 

 the reciprocal free navigation of certain rivers, includ- 

 ing'- the Iliver St. LaAvrence ; for the common use of 

 certain canals in the Canadian Dominion and in the 

 United States ; for the free navigation of Lake Mich- 

 igan; for reciprocal free transit across the territory 

 either of the United States or of the Canadian Do- 

 minion, as the case may be: the whole, sul)ject to 

 legislative provisions hereafter to be enacted by the 

 several Governments. 



Articles XXXIV. to XLII. provide for determining 

 by arbitration whicli of two dilVerent channels be- 

 tween Vancouver's Island and the main-land consti- 

 tutes the true boundary. line in that region of the 

 territoi-ies of the United States and Great Britain. 



Each of these five distinct classes of cpiestions will 

 receive separate consideration. 



