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CHAPTER IV. 
THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY- LINE. 
PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. 
Tur Articles of the Treaty from XXXIV. to XLII. 
inclusive dispose of the long-standing dispute 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 
botindary 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 
