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APPENDIX. 
on all doubtful points connected with the boundaries of the 
ceded territories, the Governor-General in Council would 
lay it down, as a rule for your guidance, that the Burmese 
should have the benefit of the most liberal construction of 
the Treaty. With regard to the principal island, namely, 
that called in our charts Pelew and Bruxe’s Island, his 
Lordship in Council understood, from the senior Commis¬ 
sioner, that it was known to lie distinctly to the south or 
south-east of the main channel of the Saluen river, and was 
consequently included in the cession to us; but his Lord- 
ship in Council authorizes you to receive any proofs which 
the Burmese may offer of their title, under the terms of the 
Treaty, and to refer the question for the farther considera¬ 
tion of Government, accompanied, of course, by all the 
local information which has since the Treaty been collected 
by the officers deputed to that quarter. 
10. —You will not have failed to observe that hitherto 
the Governor-General in Council has treated the question 
of negotiating the satisfactory adjustment of boundaries by 
the relinquishment, if necessary or expedient, of a part or 
the whole of the two remaining instalments, under the sup_ 
position that we are to retain our recent acquisitions on the 
Martaban and Tennasserim coast. As the question of oc¬ 
cupation will be farther discussed in my separate letter, in 
reply to your dispatches relating more particularly to those 
territories, it will be sufficient to observe here, that if it be 
hereafter determined to withdraw from the whole, or the 
greater portion of them, many of the questions relating to 
boundaries in other quarters will be of comparatively easy 
adjustment, as we shall then have so much to offer in ex¬ 
change ; and with regard to the right to the islands of the 
Saluen river, no question need be raised at all. 
11. —Enclosed, I have the honour to transmit to you the 
English draft of the letter which the Governor-General has 
