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are self-evident, and I agree with you, that 
they ought to be strictly conformed to. Each 
party is answerable to his own Government for 
what he says and does. Will you have the 
goodness to proceed to such business as you 
may think proper to introduce ? 
The Bur man commissioners here produced a 
note, laying claim to the districts of Martaban, 
on the east bank of the Saluen river. 
E. You delivered a note to me at our last 
meeting on the subject of boundary, to which 
you requested an answer. This answer is now 
in course of translation, and you will receive it 
in a few minutes. The Burman note here 
alluded to was as follows '“ That war between 
the two great countries might cease, a treaty 
was made at Yandabo. Of the third and fourth 
articles of that treaty, the fourth article says, that 
Ye, Tavoy, Mergui, and Tennasserim, with their 
territories, mountains, and islands, are given up ; 
that the Saluen river shall be the boundary; 
and that hereafter, if disputes shall arise concern¬ 
ing the boundary, they shall be settled as above- 
said, that is, according to the third article. It 
is not contained in the treaty, that any part of 
the territory under the jurisdiction of the city 
of Martaban shall be taken. We desire, there¬ 
fore, to know why English officers are settled 
