999 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
the present occasion, we have the proof in two most 
complete and most convincing arguments which he 
addressed to the Emperor of Germany. 
The Agent on the part of Great Britain was Ad- 
miral James C. Prevost, who had been the Commis- 
sioner of his Government, in association with Mr. 
Archibald Campbell, Commissioner of the United 
States, for determining and marking the line of bound- 
ary prescribed by the treaty, and who, of course, pos- 
sessed all the special knowledge requisite for the 
preparation of any possible argument in support of 
the pretensions of Great Britain. 
The Emperor, it appears, referred the arguments on 
both sides to three experts, Dr. Grimm, Dr. Kiepert, 
and Dr. Goldschmidt, personages among: the most 
eminent of his subjects in jurisprudence and in sci- 
ence, upon whose report he decided on the 21st of 
October, 1872,in the terms of the reference, that the 
claim of the United States to have the line drawn 
through the Canal de Haro is most in accordance 
with the true interpretation of the treaty concluded 
on the.15th of June, 1846, between Great Britain and 
the United States. 
“This Award,” says the President’s Message of De- 
cember 2, 1872, “confirms the United States in their 
claim to the important archipelago of islands lying 
between the continent and Vancouver's Island, which 
for more than twenty-six years [ever since the ratifi- 
cation of the treaty] Great Britain had contested, and 
leaves us, for the first time in the history of the United 
States as a nation, without a question of disputed 
