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In answer to the second question 

 The Tribunal unanimously agrees 

 that the Portland Channel is the Chan- 

 nel which runs from about 55 ° 56' NL 

 and passes to the north of Pearse and 

 Wales Islands. 



A majority of the Tribunal that is 

 to say Lord Alverstone Mr Root Mr 

 Lodge and Mr Turner decides that the 

 Portland Channel after passing to the 

 north of Wales Island is the channel 

 between Wales Island and Sitklan Island 

 called Tongass Channel. The Portland 

 Channel above mentioned is marked 

 throughout its length by a dotted red 

 line from the point B to the point 

 marked C on the map signed in dupli- 

 cate by the members of the Tribunal at 

 the time of signing their decision. 

 In answer to the third question 

 A majority of the Tribunal that is to 

 say Lord Alverstone Mr Root Mr Lodge 

 and Mr Turner decides that the course 

 of the line from the point of commence- 

 ment to the entrance to Portland Chan- 

 nel is the line marked A B in red on the 

 aforesaid map. 



In answer to the fourth question 

 A majority of the Tribunal that is to 

 say Lord Alverstone Mr Root Mr Lodge 

 and Mr Turner decides that the point 

 to which the line is to be drawn from 

 the head of the Portland Channel is the 

 point on the 56th parallel of latitude 

 marked D on the aforesaid map and the 

 course which the line should follow is 

 drawn from C to D on the aforesaid map. 



In answer to the fijth question 



A majority of the Tribunal that is to 

 say Lord Alverstone Mr Root Mr Lodge 

 and Mr Turner decides that the answer 

 to the above question is in the affirmative 



Question five having been answered 

 in the affirmative question six requires 

 no answer. 



In answer to the seventh question 



A majority of the Tribunal that is to 

 say Lord Alverstone, Mr Root, Mr Lodge 

 and Mr Turner decides that the moun- 

 tains marked S on the aforesaid map 

 are the mountains referred to as situated 

 parallel to the coast on that part of the 

 coast where such mountains marked S 

 are situated and that between the points 

 marked P (mountain marked S 8,000) 

 on the north and the point marked T 

 (mountain marked S 7,950) in the ab- 

 sence of further survey the evidence is 

 not sufficient to enable the Tribunal to 

 say which are the mountains parallel to 

 the coast within the meaning of the 

 Treaty. 



In witness whereof we have signed 

 the above written decision upon the 

 questions submitted to us. 



Signed in duplicate this twentieth day 

 of October 1903. 



Alverstone. 

 Elihu Root 

 Henry Cabot Lodge 

 George Turner 

 Witness 



Reginald Tower : 



Secretary. 



