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grouncis upon which the other 

 commissioner shall have so re- 

 fused, dechned, or omitted to 

 act, as the case may be. And if 

 the commissioner so refusing, 

 dechning, or omitting to act, 

 shall also wilfully omit to state 

 the grounds upon which he has 

 so done in such manner that the 

 said statement may be referred 

 to such friendly sovereign or 

 state, together with the report 

 of such other commissioner, 

 then such sovereign, or state, 

 shall decide, ex parte, upon the 

 said report alone. And his Bri- 

 tannic majesty, and the govern- 

 ment of the United States, en- 

 gage to consider the decision of 

 such friendl}' sovereign or state, 

 to be final and conclusive on ail 

 the matters so referred. 

 Article IV, 



AnrrcLR IV. Whereas, nei-- 

 ther that point of the Highlands 

 lying duo north l>om the source 

 of the river St. Croix, and de- 

 signated in the ibrmer treaty of 

 peace between the tivo poxvers 

 as the northwest angle of Nova 

 Scotia, nor the northwestern- 

 most head of Connecticut river, 

 has yet been ascertained ; and 

 whereas that part of the bound- 

 ary line between the dominions 

 of the two powers, which ex- 

 tends from the source of the ri- 

 ver St. Croix directly north to 

 the above mentioned northwest 

 angle of Nova Scotia ; thence, 

 along the said Highlands, which 

 divide those rivers that empty 

 themselves into the river St. 

 Lawrence, from those which 

 foil into the Atlantic ocean, to 

 the northwesternmost head of 

 Connecticut river ; thence, down 

 along the middle of that river to 

 the forty-fifih degree of north 

 latitude ; thence, by a line due 



