949 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
of Great Britain shall enjoy the use of the St. Clair 
Flats’ Canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants 
of the United States [Art. XX VII]. 
[c] The United States engage to urge on the State 
Governments, and Great Britain engages to urge on 
the Dominion of Canada, to secure each to the sub- 
jects or citizens of the other the use on equal terms 
of the several canals connected with the lakes or riv- 
ers traversed by or contiguous to the boundary-line 
between the possessions of the high contracting Par- 
ties [ Art. XX VIL]. 
All these are provisions which bring the United 
States and the Dominion of Canada into fixed rela- 
tions independent of and superior to all questions of 
Governments. 
2. Of temporary provisions we have the following: 
[a@] The navigation of Lake Michigan is declared 
free and open for the purposes of commerce to the 
subjects of Great Britain [ Art. XX VIII.]. 
[4] Goods, wares, and merchandise arriving at the 
ports of New York, Boston, Portland, or such other 
ports as the President may designate, and destined 
for the British possessions in North America, may be 
entered at the proper custom-house without payment 
of duties, and conveyed in transit through the terri- 
tory of the United States [Art. XXTX.]. 
And, in like manner, goods, wares, and merchandise 
arriving at any of the ports of the British possessions 
in North America, and destined for the United States, 
may be entered at the proper custom - house, and 
conveyed in transit without the payment of duties 
