GRANDE - BRETAGNE , ÉTATS - UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE
Convention de délimitation (Alaska et Passamaquoddy Bay); signée à Washington le 22 juillet 1892.*)
Parliameniary Paper s presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of
Her Majesty. i892.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdora of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, being equally désirons to provide for the reraoval of ail possible cause of différence between their respective Governments hereafter in regard to the délimitation of the existing boundary between Her Majesty's possessions in North America and the United States in respect to such portions of said boundary as may not in fact have been perraanently marked in virtue of Treaties heretofore concluded , have resolved to conclude a Convention in furtherance of thèse ends, and for that purpose have appointed as their respective Plénipotentiaires :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Michael H. Herbert, Chargé d'Affaires ad intérim of Great Britain; and
The Président of the United States , John W. Foster , Secretary of State of the United States ;
Who , after having communicated to each other their respective full powers , which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles : —
Article I.
The High Contracting Parties agrée that a coincident or joint survey (as may be found in practice most convenient) shall be made of the territory adjacent to that part of the boundary - line of the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America dividing the Province of British Columbia and the north-west territory of Canada from the territory of Alaska, from the latitude of 54° 40, north to the point where the said boundary-line encounters the 141st degree of longitude westward from the meridian of Greenwich , by Commissions to be appointed severally by the High Contracting Parties , with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent délimitation of said boundaryline in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing Treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and Russia and between the United States and Russia.
Application will be made without delay to the respective Législative
") Les ratifications ont été échangées à Washington le 23 août 1892.
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Bodies for the appropriations necessary for the prosecution of the survey, and the Commissions to be appointed by the two Governments sball meet at Ottawa witbin two months after said appropriation shall have been made, and shall proceed as soon as practicable thereafter to the active discharge of their duties.
The respective Commissions shall complète the survey and submit their final Reports thereof within two years from the date of their first meeting.
The Commissions shall, so far as they may be able to agrée, make a joint Report to each of the two Governments, and they shall also report, either jointly or severally, to each Government on any points upon which they may be unable to agrée.
Each Government shall pay the expenses of the Commission appointed by it.
Each Government engages to facilitate in every possible way any opérations which , in pursuance of the plan to be agreed upon by the Commissions , may be conducted within its territory by the Commission of the other.
The High Contracting Parties agrée that, as soon as practicable after the Report, or Reports of the Commissions shall have been received, they will proceed to consider and establish the boundary-line in question.
Article II.
The High Contracting Parties agrée that the Governments of Her Britannic Majesty in behalf of the Dominion of Canada and of the United States shall, with as little delay as possible, appoint two Commissioners, one to be named by each party , to détermine upon a method of more accurately marking the boundary-line between the two countries in the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay in front of and adjacent to Eastport , in the State of Maine, and to place buoys or fix such other boundary marks as they may détermine to be necessary.
Each Government shall pay the expenses of its own Commissioner, and cost of marking the boundary in such manner as shall be determined upon shall be defrayed by the High Contracting Parties in equal moieties.
Article III.
The présent Convention shall be duly ratified by Her Britannic Majesty and by the Président of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof ; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within twelve months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.
In faith whereof we, the respective Plénipotentiaires, have signed this Convention , and have hereunto affixed our seals.
Done in duplicate at Washington, the 22nd day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
(Signed) (L.S.) Michael H. Herbert.
(Signed) (L.S.) John W. Foster.
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