Decision of Alaskan Boundary Tribunal 



Articles III, IV and V of the said 

 Treaty of 1825, that the said Tribunal 

 should answer and decide the following 

 questions: — 



1. What is intended as the point of 

 commencement of the line ? 



2. What channel is the Portland 

 Channel ? 



3. What course should the line take 

 from the point of commencement to the 

 entrance to Portland Channel ? 



4. To what point on the 56th 

 parallel is the line to be drawn from the 

 head of the Portland Channel, and 

 what course should it follow between 

 these points ? 



5. In extending the line of demarca- 

 tion northward from said point on the 

 parallel of the 56th degree of north 

 latitude, following the crest of the 

 mountains situated parallel to the 

 coast until its intersection with the 

 141st degree of longitude west of 

 Greenwich, subject to the conditions 

 that if such line should anywhere exceed 

 the distance of 10 marine leagues from 

 the ocean, then the boundary between 

 the British and the Russian territory 

 should be formed by a line parallel to 

 the sinuosities of the coast and distant 

 therefrom not more than 10 marine 

 leagues,, was it the intention and mean- 

 ing of the said Convention of 1825 that 

 there should remain in the exclusive 

 possession of Russia a continuous fringe, 

 or strip, of coast on the mainland not 

 exceeding 10 marine leagues in width, 

 separating the British possessions from 

 the bays, ports, inlets, havens, and 

 waters of the ocean, and extending 

 from the said point on the 56th degree 

 of latitude north to a point where such 

 line of demarcation should intersect the 

 141st degree of longitude west of the 

 meridian of Greenwich ? 



6. If the foregoing question should 

 be answered in the negative and in the 

 event of the summit of such mountains 

 proving to be in places more than 10 

 marine leagues from the coast should 



the width of the lisiere, which was to 

 belong to Russia be measured (1) from 

 the mainland coast of the ocean, strictly 

 so-called along a line perpendicular 

 thereto, or (2) was it the intention and 

 meaning of the said Convention that 

 where the mainland coast is indented by 

 deep inlets forming part of the terri- 

 torial waters of Russia, the width of the 

 lisiere was to be measured (a) from the 

 line of the general direction of the 

 mainland coast, or (b) from the line 

 separating the waters of the ocean from 

 the territorial waters of Russia, or (c) 

 from the heads of the aforesaid inlets? 



7. What, if any exist, are the moun- 

 tains referred to as situated parallel to 

 the coast, which mountains, when 

 within 10 marine leagues from the 

 coast, are declared to form the eastern 

 boundary ? 



And whereas His Britannic Majesty 

 duly appointed Richard Everard, Baron 

 Alverstone, G.C.M G. Lord Chief 

 Justice of England, Sir Louis Amable 

 Jette K C M G Lieutenant-Governor 

 of the Province of Quebec, and Allen 

 Bristol Aylesworth one of His Majesty's 

 Counsel, and the President of the 

 United States of America duly appointed 

 the Honourable Elihu Root Secretary 

 of War of the United States, the 

 Honourable Henry Cabot Lodge, Sena- 

 tor of the United States from the State 

 of Massachusetts and the Honourable 

 George Turner of the State of Washing- 

 ton, to be members of the said Tribunal. 



Now therefore we the Undersigned 

 having each of us first subscribed an 

 oath as provided by the said Conven- 

 tion and having taken into consideration 

 the matters directed by the said Con- 

 vention to be considered by us, and 

 having judicially considered the said 

 questions submitted to us, do hereby 

 make Answer and Award as follows:— 



In answer to the Jirsi question 



The Tribunal unanimously agrees 

 that the point of commencement of the 

 line is Cape Muzon. 



