:h 



f\) poitUs 



(2) parts ok 



(3) designation and. 



(4) And in the event of the 

 said two commissioners differing, 

 or both or either of them refus- 

 ing, declining, or wilfully omit- 

 ting to act, such, reports, decla- 

 rations, or statements, shall be 

 made by them, or either of 

 them ; and such reference to a 

 friendly sovereign or state shall 

 be made in all re^^pects as in tho 

 hitter part of the third article is 

 contained, and in as full a man- 

 ner as if the same was herein 

 repeated. 



Article VII. 

 (J)) two. 



(6) all. (7) 



(8) statements. 



(9) aud. 



■eports. 



and seals, designate the bound- 

 ary aforesaid, state their deci' 

 sion on the (1) questions thus re- 

 ferred to them, and particularize 

 (he latitude and longitude of the 

 most northwestern point of the 

 Lake of the Woods, and of such 

 other (2) points on the said 

 boundary, as they may deem 

 proper ; and both parties agree 

 to consider such (3) decision a^* 

 final and conclusive. (4) 



(10) contracting. 



ARTicLfc: Vll. The several 

 boards of (5) commissioners men- 

 tioned in the four preceding ar- 

 ticles, shall respectively have 

 power to appoint a secretary, 

 and to employ such surveyors, 

 or other persons, as they shall 

 judae necessary. Duplicates of 

 (6) their respective (7) declara- 

 tions (8) and decit^ions of the 

 statement (9) of their accounts, 

 and of the journal of their pro- 

 ceedings, shall be delivered by 

 them to the agents of his Britan- 

 nic majesty, and to the agents of 

 the United States, who may be 

 respectively appointed and au- 

 thorized to manage the business 

 in behalf of their respective go- 

 vernments. The said commis- 

 sioners shall be respectively 

 paid in such manner as shall be 

 agreed between the two ( 1 0) par- 

 ties, such agreement being to b.e 



