aforesaid, state their decision on the questions thus referred to 

 them, and particularize the latitude and longitude of the most north- 

 western point of the Lake of the Woods, and of such other points 

 of the said boundary as they may deem proper. And both parties 

 agree to consider such decision as final and conclusive. 



Article VII. The several boards of commissioners mentioned in 

 the four preceding articles shall, respectively, have power to ap* 

 point a secretary, and to employ such surveyors, or other persons, 

 as they shall judge necessary. Duplicates of their respective de- 

 clarations and decisions, of the statement of their accounts, and of 

 the journal of their proceedings, shall be delivered by them to the 

 agents of his Britannic Majesty, and to the agents of the United 

 States, who may be respectively appointed, and authorized to man- 

 age the business in behalf of their respective governments. The 

 said commissioners shall be respectively paid in such manner as shall 

 be agreed between the two parties ; such agreement being to be 

 settled at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. 

 And all other expenses attending the said commissions shall be de- 

 frayed, jointly, by the two parties, the same being previously as- 

 certained and allowed by a majority of the commissioners. And in 

 the c^se of death, sickness, resignation, or necessary absence, the 

 place of every such commissioner, respectively, shall be supplied 

 in the same manner as such commissioner was first appointed, and 

 the new commissioner shall take the same oath or affirmation, and 

 do the same duties. 



It is further agreed between the two parties, that, in case any of 

 the islands mentioned in any of the preceding articles, which were 

 in the possession of one of the parties prior to the commencement 

 of the present war between the two countries, should, by the de- 

 cision of any of the boards of commissioners aforesaid, fall within 

 the dominions of ibe other party, all grants of lands made previous 

 to that time, by the part\' having had such possession, shall be as 

 valid as if such island or islands had, by such decision or decisions, 

 been adjudged to be within the dominions of the party having had 

 such possession. 



Article VIII. It is agreed that a line, drawn due north or 

 south, (as the case may be) from the most northwestern point of 

 the Lake of the Woods, until it shall intersect the forty-ninth par- 

 allel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection, due 

 west, along and with the said parallel, shall be the dividing line 

 between his majesty's territories and those of the United States to 

 the westward of the said lake, as far as their said respective ter- 

 ritories extend in that quarter ; and that the said line shall, to that 

 extent, form the southern boundary of his majesty's said territo- 

 ries, and the northern boundary of the said territories of the 

 United States : Provided, that nothing in the present article shall 

 be construed to extend to the northwest coast of America, or to 

 the territories belonging to, or claimed by, either party, on (he 

 continent of America, to the westward of the Stony Mountains. 



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