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States likewise caused a map to be published, setting forth the 

 bounds of Alaska in accordance with the treaty of 1825, and the 

 same claim as to the strip was thereon made as by Russia in its . 

 map of 1827. Seventh, upon the transfer of Alaska a portion 

 of the United States army was dispatched to occupy the terri- 

 tory and a detachment was stationed for some time on this strip 

 of the mainland. Eighth, since the cession post-offices and 

 post-routes have been established and maintained at various 

 points on the strip. Ninth, custom-houses have likewise been 

 established and duties collected therein. Tenth, government 

 and mission schools have been maintained, and notably so, for 

 near twenty years, at the head of Lynn canal. Eleventh, the 

 revenue vessels of the United States have continuously since the , 

 date of the cession patrolled the interior waters surrounded by 

 the strip to enforce the revenue and other laws of the United 

 States. Twelfth, the naval and revenue vessels of the United 

 States have for the same period exercised acts of sovereignty 

 over the Indian tribes inhabiting the strip, especially about the 

 head of Lynn canal, and the latter have yielded unquestioned 

 allegiance to the United States. Thirteenth, in the Census of 

 1880 and 1890 all the Indian tribes inhabiting the strip were 

 included in the population of the United States and so pub- 

 lished in the official reports. Fourteenth, the territorial gov- 

 ernment of Alaska has exercised various and repeated acts of 

 sovereignty over the strip and interior waters enclosed by it, and 

 the writs of the United States courts have run throughout its 

 whole extent. Fifteenth, under the territorial claim of the 

 United States and the protection of the government, citizens of 

 the United States have entered and occupied the strip, built 

 cities and towns, and established industrial enterprises thereon. 

 All the foregoing acts have taken place without a single protest 

 or complaint on the part of the British or Canadian governments, 

 except that some friction lias occurred between the customs out- 

 posts as to the exact demarcation of the eastern line of the strip. 

 For the first time a statement was presented by the British gov- 

 ernment to the Government of the United States on the 1st of 

 A.ugust, 1898, developing the fact that a difference of views ex- 

 isted respecting the provisions of the treaty of 1825 relating to 

 tin' stri i > of territory and the waters embraced by it. Two months 

 previous an agreement had been reached between the two gov- 

 ernments for the appointment of a joint commission for the ad- 

 justment of pending questions of difference between the United 



