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Rh complete exposition of the new status of the two nations relative to the Oregon territory.

A treaty proposed by Britain; accepted and signed. Finally, at the psychological moment as it proved, Lord Aberdeen submitted a proposal in the form of a treaty draft. It made the forty-ninth parallel the boundary to the sea, but gave the British the whole of Vancouver's Island, with the freedom of the ports in that region and also the freedom of navigating the Columbia. President Polk asked the Senate's advice on this treaty and was urged to accept it. The treaty was concluded June 15, 1846.