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ARTICLE XXXII. 
It is further agreed that the provisions and stipulations of Articles XVIII. 
to XXV. of this Treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the Colony of Newfoundland 
so far as they are applicable. But if the Imperial Parliament, the Legislature 
of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the 
Colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing arti- 
cles into effect, then this article shall be of no effect; but the omissiqn to make 
provision by law to give it effect, by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, 
shall not in any way impair any other articles of this Treaty. 
ARTICLE XXXIII. 
The foregoing Articles XVIII. to XXV., inclusive, and Article XXX. of 
this Treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into 
operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, 
by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward’s Isl- 
and on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other. 
Such assent having been given, the said articles shall remain in force for the 
period of ten years from the date at which they may come into operation; and 
further until the expiration of two years after either of the High Contracting 
Parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; 
each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such notice to the 
other at the end of the said period of ten years or at any time afterward. 
ARTICLE XXXIV. 
Whereas it was stipulated by Article I. of the Treaty concluded at Washing- 
ton on the 15th of June, 1846, between the United States and Her Britannic 
Majesty, that the line of boundary 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 ascertained, should be con- 
tinued westward along the said parallel of north latitude ‘‘ to the middle of the 
channel which separates the continent from Vancouver’s Island, and thence 
southerly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, to the 
Pacific Ocean ;” and whereas the Commissioners appointed by the two 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 Government of the United States 
claims that it should be run through the Canal de Haro, it is agreed that the 
respective claims of the Government of the United States and of the Govern- 
ment of Her Britannic Majesty shall be submitted to the arbitration and award 
