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western coasts of North America, or of the islands adjacent, situate to the 

 north of the parts of the said coast already occupied by Spain, wherever 

 the subjects of either of the two powers shall have made settlements since 

 the month of April, 1789, or shall hereafter make any, the subjects of the 

 other shall have free access, and shall carry on their trade without any 

 disturbance or molestation. 



Art. 6. With respect to the eastern and western coasts of South 

 America, and to the islands adjacent, no settlement shall be formed here- 

 after by the respective subjects in such part of those coasts as are situated 

 to the south of those parts of the same coasts, and of the islands adjacent, 

 which are already occupied by Spain : provided, that the said respective 

 subjects shall retain the liberty of landing on the coasts and islands so 

 situated for the purpose of their fishery, and of erecting thereon huts and 

 other temporary buildings serving only for those purposes. 



Art. 7. In all cases of complaint or infraction of the articles of the 

 present convention, the officers of either party, without permitting them- 

 selves to commit any violence or act of force, shall be bound to make 

 an exact report of the affair and of its circumstances to their respective 

 courts, who will terminate such differences in an amicable manner. 



(2.) 



Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, 

 signed at London, October 2Qth, 1818. 



Article 2. It is agreed that a line drawn from the most north-western 

 point of the Lake of the Woods, along the 49th parallel of north latitude, 

 or, if the said point shall not be in the 49th parallel of north latitude, then 

 that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may 

 be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, 

 and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said 

 parallel, shall be the line of demarcation between the territories of the 

 United States and those of his Britannic majesty ; and that the said line 

 shall form the northern boundary of the said territories of the United 

 States, and the southern boundary of the territories of his Britannic 

 majesty, from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. 



Art. 3. It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either 

 party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Moun- 

 tains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the naviga- 

 tion of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of 

 ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the 

 vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers ; it being well understood 

 that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim 

 which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of 

 the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other 

 power or state to any part of the said country ; the only object of the 

 high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and 

 differences among themselves. 



