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CHAPTER IV. 



THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY- LINE. 

 PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. 



The Articles of tlie Treaty from XXXIV. to XLIL 

 inclusive dispose of the long-standing disj:)ute be- 

 tween the United States and Great Britain regarding 

 the true water-line by which the Territory of Wash- 

 ington is separated from Vancouver's Island. 



The subject of the controversy, and the agreement 



for its termination, are set forth as follows : 



" Whereas it was stipulated by Article I. of the treaty con- 

 cluded at Washington on the 15th of June, 1846, between the 

 United States and Her Britannic Majesty, that the line of 

 boundary between the territories of the United States and those 

 of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the forty-ninth 

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

 certained, should be continued westward along the said paral- 

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

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

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

 to the Pacific Ocean ;' and whereas the Commissioners appoint- 

 ed by the high contracting Parties to determine that portion 

 of the boundary which runs southerly through the middle of 

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

 and whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty claims 

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

 above recited, be run through the Rosario Straits, and the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States claims that" it should be run 

 through the Canal de Haro, it is agreed that the respective 



