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lions, it is agreed that they shall be referred to three commissioners, 

 to be appointed in the following manner, viz : one commissioner 

 shall be appointed b}^ his Britannic Majesty, and one by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate thereof, and the said two commissioners, shall have 

 power to choose a third ; and if they cannot agree, they shall each 

 propose one person, and of the two names so proposed, one shall 

 be drawn by lot, in the presence of the two original comrniesioners, 

 and the three commissioners so appointed, shall be s^vorn impar- 

 tially to examine and decide the said questions according to such 

 evidence as shall respectively be laid before them, on the part of 

 the British government and the United States. The said commiS' 



missioners shall meet at and shall have power to adjourn to 



such other place or places as they shall think ht. The said com- 

 missioners, or a majority of them, shall, by a declaration under 

 their hands and seals, determine the boundary aforesaid, from the 

 mouth of the river St. Croix to the bay of Fundy ; and decide to 

 which of the two contracting parties the several islands aforesaid 

 do respectively belong, in conformity with the true intent of the 

 former treaty of peace And both parties agree to consider such 

 decision as final and conclusive. 



Article IV. Whereas neither that point of the high lands lying 

 due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in 

 the former treaty of peace between the two powers, as the north- 

 west angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Con- 

 necticut river, has yet been ascertained : And whereas that part of 

 the boundary line between the dominions of the two powers, which 

 extends from the source of the river St. Croix, directly north, to 

 the above mentioned northwest angle ofNova Scotia : thence, along 

 the said high lands, which divide those rivers, that empty them- 

 selves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into thet 

 Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river ; 

 thence, down, along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth de- 

 gree of north l/ittitude ; thence, by a line due west, on said latitude, 

 until it strikes the river Iroquois, or Cataraguy, has not yet been 

 surveyed ; It is agreed, that, for these several purposes, three 

 commissioners shall be appointed, sworn, (mutatis mutandis) and 

 authorized to act exactly in the manner directed with respect to 

 those mentioned in the next preceding article ; the said commis- 

 sioners shall meet at , and shall have power to adjourn to 



such other place or places as they shall think fit. The said com- 

 missioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to ascertain and 

 determine the points above mentioned, in conformity with the provi- 

 sions of the said treaty of peace, and shall cause the boundary afore- 

 said, from the source of the river St Croix to the river Iroquois, 

 or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked according to the said 

 provisions. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall 

 make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration, un- 

 der their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the 



