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CHAPTER IV. 

 THE NORTinVESTEUN BOUNDARY- LINE. 



I'KOVISIONS OF THE TREATY. 



The Articles of tlie Treaty from XXXIV. to XLII. 

 iuclusive dispose of the long-standing dispute be- 

 tween the United States and Great Britain reirardino: 

 the ti'iie Avater-lino by which the Territory of AVash- 

 ington is separated from Vancouver's Island. 



The subject of the controversy, and the agreement 



for its termination, arc set forth as follows: 



"Whereas it was fitipulatcJ l)y Article I. of tlic treaty con- 

 oluiled at ^Va^^llilll:;tOIl on the Ifith ot'.Tiine, ls40, between the 

 ITniled States ami Her J»ritaiuiic iNIajesty, that the line of 

 Loundary between the territories of the United States and tliosc 

 of Her Uritannic ^Majesty, from the point on tlic forty-nintli 

 parallel of north latitude up to which it liad already been as- 

 certained, sliould bv continued westward along the s^aid paral- 

 lel of north latitude ' to the middle of the channel which sepa- 

 rates the continent from Vancouver''8 Island, and thence south- 

 erly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, 

 to tlie Pacific Ocean ;' and whereas the Commissioners api)oint- 

 cd by the high contracting I'arties to determine that ])ortion 

 of the boundary a\ hich runs southerly through the middle of 

 the chanxicl aforesaid, were unable to agree upon the same ; 

 and whereas the Government of Her Uritannic iMajesty claims 

 that such boundary-line should, under the terms of the treaty 

 nbove recited, bo run through the Kosario Straits, and the Oov- 

 crnment of tho United States claims that it should be run 

 tlirough the Canal do Ilaro, it is agreed that the respective 



