V. N. R. IV. 570. - V. S

Délimitation.

1. The Chief Astronomers subniit the folio wing documents and maps: — (a.) A detailed list, in duplicate, of forty astronomical stations in

addition to one for the location of the most north- western point of the Lake of the Woods, at which observations were taken under their superintendence to détermine the line described in the 2nd Article of the Convention of London (signed 20th October, 1818) between the terminal points, viz., the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods and the eastern end of the international boundary line, previously marked between Akamina, in the Rocky Mountains, and the western coast of North Amerika.

(b.) A descriptive list, in duplicate, of 388 monuments and marks placed on the boundary line, as derived from the astronomical stations enumerated in the list referred to in section (a) of this paragraph.

(c.) A duplicate set of 24 maps, on a scale of y^6T2^tns' or 1 ^ncn to 2 miles , illustrating the topography of the country through which the boundary line runs, and indicating the relative positions of the various monuments and marks referred to in section (b) of this paragraph.

2. The 2nd Article of the Convention of London, signed 20th October, 1818, is read as follows: —

»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 démarcation between the territories of His Britannic Majesty and those of the United States, and that the said line shall form the southern boundary of the said territories of His Britannic Majesty, and the northern boundary of the territories of the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains."

3. The duplicate documents and maps enumerated in paragraph numbered (1) — one set for each of the respective Governments— having been examined and compared, are authenticated by the signatures of the Commissioners, who agrée as follows: —

(1.) The 388 monuments detailed in the list referred to in section (b) of paragraph numbered 1, are on and mark the astronomical lines stipulated by the 2nd Article of the Convention of London (signed 20th October, 1818), to be the line of boundary between the territories of Her Britannic Majesty and of the United States of Amerika , from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony (i.e., Rocky) Mountains.

(2.) In the intervais between the monuments along the parallel of latitude it is agreed that the line has the curvature of a parallel of 49° north latitude, and that such characteristic shall détermine ail questions that may hereafter arise with référence to the position of the boundary at any point between neighbouring monuments.

(3.) It is further agreed that, in the event of any of the said 388 monuments or marks being obliterated beyond the power of récognition,

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the lost site or sites shall be recovered by their recorded position relatively to the next neighbouring imobliterated mark or marks.

D. R. Cameron, Major, R. A., Her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner.

Archibald Campbell^ United States' Commissioner.

London, May 29, 1876.

ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, GRANDE-BRETAGNE

Protocole concernant la mise en vigueur des articles XVIII à XXV et XXX du Traité de Washington du 8 mai 1871*); signé à Washington, le 28 mai 1874.

Treaties and Conventions, p. H31.

Whereas it is provided by Article XXXII of the Treaty between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, signed at Washington on the 8th of May, 1871, as follows:

Art. XXXII. »It is further agreed that the provisions and stipulations of articles XVIII to XXV of this treaty , inclusive , shall extend to the Colony of Newfoundland, so far as they are applicable. But if the Impérial Parliament, the Législature of Newfonndland , or the Congress of the United States shall not embrace the Colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, then this article shall be of no effect; but the omission to make provision by law to give it effect, by either of the législative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other articles of this treaty. «

And whereas an Act was passed by the Senate and House of Représentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled and approved on the first day of March 1873, by the Président of the United States entitled »An Act to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed in the city of Washington the eighth of May 1871, relating to fisheries — « by which Act it is provided :

»Sec. 2. That whenever the Colony of Newfoundland shall give its consent to the application of the stipulations and provisions of the said Articles eighteenth to twenty fifth of said Treaty, inclusive, to that Colony, and the Législature thereof, and the Impérial Parliament shall pass the necessary laws for that purpose, the above enumerated Articles, being the produce of the fisheries of the Colony of Newfoundland, shall be admitted