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date at which they may come into operation, and fur. 
ther until the expiration of two years after either of 
the Parties shall have given to the other notice of its 
desire to terminate the same: which either may give 
at the end of the said ten years or at any time after- 
ward [Art. XX XTIT]. 
Temporary as these provisions are, or at least ter- 
minable at the will of either Party, they are equitable 
in themselves, and advantageous both to the United 
States and the Canadian Dominion; and, like the 
permanent provisions of the Treaty explained in this 
chapter, they tend to draw the two countries closer 
and closer together. 
The germ of the Treaty of Washington, it is to be 
remembered, was the suggestion of the British Gov- 
ernment through Sir John Rose, a former Canadian 
Minister, whose proposal related only to pending 
questions affecting the British possessions in North 
America, not Great Britain herself. 
What these questions were we partly understand by 
the stipulations of the Treaty, the whole of which, ex- 
cept those growing out of incidents of the late Civil 
War, are of interest to Canada, including the maritime 
Provinces, primarily if not exclusively, although re- 
quiring to be treated in the name of Great Britain. 
To the arrangements actually made, Canada would 
have preferred, of course, revival of the Elgin-Marcy 
Reciprocity Treaty, involving the admission into each 
country, free of duty, of numerous articles, being the 
growth and produce of the British Colonies or of the 
United States. It was the desire of Canada to have 
