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Treaty to that end, and have named as their Pleni- 

 potentiaries, that is to say : 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable 

 Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. ; the Honourable Sir 

 Lionel Sackville Sackville West, K.C.M.G., Her 

 Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of 

 America ; and Sir Charles Tupper, G.C.M.G., C.B., 

 Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada : 



And the President of the United States, Thomas 

 F. Bayard, Secretary of State ; William L. Putnam, 

 of Maine ; and James B. Angell, of Michigan : 



Who, having communicated to each other their 

 respective full powers, found in good and due form, 

 have agreed upon the following articles : 



Article I 



The High Contracting Parties agree to appoint 

 a Mixed Commission to delimit, in the manner 

 provided in this Treaty, the British waters, bays, 

 creeks and harbours of the coasts of Canada and of 

 Newfoundland, as to which the United States, by 

 Article I of the Convention of the 20th October, 

 18 1 8, between Great Britain and the United States, 

 renounced for ever any liberty to take, dry, or cure 

 fish. 



Article II 



The Commission shall consist of two Commis- 

 sioners to be named by Her Britannic Majesty, and 



