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 290 PUBLIC TREATIES. Commissioners shall have power to ascertain and determine the points above mentioned, in conformity with the provisions of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eightydhree, and shall cause the boundary aforesaid, from the source of the river St. bronx to the river Iroquois or Cataraquy, to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions. The said Commissioners shall make a map ot the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the northwest angle of llova Scotia, of the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, and ot such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper. And both _ parties agree to consider such map and declaration as finally and con- C““° °f ‘1‘°`°" clusively fixing the said boundary. And in the event of the said two mc; ,.0 Commissioners diftering, or both or either of them refusing, declining, of': S,,°,,,f°°§Q'°'}§2»,€ or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements pp. :112-zsmj shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly, sovereign or State shall be made in all respects as in the latter part ot the fourth article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Anrxcrn VI. B<>¤¤i¤d¤¤‘¥ frvm ¤ Whereas by the former treaty of peace that portion of the boundary of the United States from the point where the forty-iitth degree of north m,,_,,,,§_ latitude strikes the river Iroquois or Cataraquy to the Lake Superior, [Sm, A,.,,;,,;,, U, was declared to be ·‘ along the middleof said river into Lake Ontario, treaty of 1783, through the middle of said lake, until it strikes the communication by P·2l·`7-] water between that lake and Lake Erie, thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that lake and Lake Superior;” and whereas doubts have arisen what was the middle of the said river, lakes, and water communications, and whether certain _ islands lying in the same were within the dominions of His Britannic Commissioners to Majesty or of the United States: In order, therefore, tinallytodecide these ‘*° °l’P°'¤*°d· don bts, they shall bcreferred to twoCommissioners, to be appointed, sworn, and authorized to act exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding article, unless otherwise specified in this _Mecti¤g an·l d_¤- present article. The said Commissioners shall meet, in the first instance, “"'"“"“‘ to such other place or places as they shall think tit. The said Commis· [Sw e30G-] sioners shall, by a report or declaration, under their hands and seals, designate the boundary through the said river, lakes, and water communications, and decide to which of the two contracting parties the several islands lying within the said rivers, lakes, and water communications, do respectively belong, in conformity with the true intent of the said treaty of one thousand seven hundred and eightythree. And both parties agree to consider such designation and decision as final and con- _Cuse or disagree- elusive. And in the event of the said two Commissioners diliering, or ment. both or either of them refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or State shall [See Article IV.] be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth article is contained, and in as t'ull a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Anrrcnn VII. Boundary to the It is further agreed that the said two last-mentioned Commissioners,
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Huh? nnQ{‘g"pm§;'f cedingartiele, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized upon their oaths 0,. m,,, ,,,0 mk,, of impartially to fix and determine, according to the true intent of the said the ivoons. treaty ot peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, that