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 316 PUBLIC TREATIES. principles of humanity and justice; and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavorsto accomplish so desirable an ob_]ect;’ and whereas, notwithstanding the laws which have at various times been passed by the two Governments, and the efforts made to suppress it, that criminal tratiic is still prosecuted and carried on; and whereas the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland are determined that, so far as may bein their power, it shall be etfectually abolished ;_and whereas it is found expedient, for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the territories and jurisdiction of the two parties respectively, that persons committing the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, Contracting pu- be reciprocally delivered up: The United States of America and Her ties. Britaunic Majesty, having resolved to treat on these several sulgects, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries to negotiate and conclude a treaty, that is to say: Negotiutors. The President of the United States has, on his part, furnished with full powers Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of the United States, and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has, on her part, appointed the Right Honorable Alexander Lord Ashburton, a peer of the said United Kingdom, a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, and Her Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary on a special mission to the United States; `Who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective full powers, have agreed to and signed the following articles: Anrronn I. b ?°****•*¤{]Y 2**3 It is hereby agreed_ and declared that the line of boundary shall be S§“:,:‘:,dt£;B;b as follows: Beginning at the monument at the source of the river isn possessions. St. Croix as designated and agreed to by the Commissioners under [ge,. P, 21;,] the fifth article of the treaty of 1794, between the Governments of the United States and Great Britain; thence, north, following the [Sm P_289_] exploring line run and marked by the surveyors of the two Governments in the years 1817 and 1818, under the nfth article of the treaty of Ghent, to its intersection with the river St. John, and to the middle of the channel thereof; thence, up the middle of the main channel of the said river St. John, to the mouth of the river St. Francisthence, up the middle of the channel of the said river St. Francis, and of the lakes through which it flows, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamook; thence, southwesterly, in a straight line, to a point on the [Sc, A,.,,,,],,,, In northwest branch of the river St. John, which point shall he ten miles and VL] distant from the main branch of the St. John, in a straight line, and in the nearest direction; but if the said point shall be found to be less than seven miles from the nearest point of the summit or crest of the highlands that divide those rivers which empty themselves into the river Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the river Saint John, then the said point shall be made to recede down the said northwest branch of the river St. John, to a point seven miles in a straight line from the said summit or crest; thence, in a straight line, in a course about south, eight degrees west, to the point where the parallel of latitude of 460 25' north intersects the southwest branch of the St. John’s; thence, southerly, by the said branch, to the source thereof in the highlands at the Metjarmette portage; thence, down along the said highlands which divide the waters which empty themselves into the river Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the head of Hall’s Stream ; thence, down the middle of said stream, till the line thus run intersects the old line of boundary surveyed and marked by Valentine and Collins, previously to the year 1774, as the 45th degree of north latitude, and which has been known and understood to be the line of