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 l BOUNDARY CONVENTION—GREAT BRITAIN. Armin 11, 1908, 2009 thence through the Great Lakes and communicating waterways to · the mouth o Pigeon River, at the western shore of Lake Superior, ID accordance with the description of such line in Article II of the Public '1‘r¤¤¤¤¤.m>· Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, dated z°6’2°°’°m` September 3, 1783, and of a portion of such line in Article II of the Treaty of August 9, 1842, aforesaid, and as described in the joint report dated June 18, 1822, of the Commissioners appointed under _ Article VI of the Treaty of December 24, 1814, between the United States and Great Britain, with respect to a portion of said line and as marked on charts prepared by them and filed with said report, and with respect to the remaining portion of said line as marked on the charts a opted as treaty charts of the boundary imder the provisions of Article II of the Treaty of 1842, above ·mentioned, with such deviation from said line, however, as may be required on account of the cession by Great Britain to the United States of the portion of Horse Shoe Reef in the Niagara River necessary for the light—house erected there by the United States in accordance with the terms of the protocol of a conference held at the British Forei Office Decem- public 1-,,,,,;,,,, ,,_ ber 9, 1850, between the representatives of the two (invernments and lm signed by them agreeing upon such cemion; and it is agreed that w erever the boun ary is shown on said charts by a curved line along the water the Commissioners are authorized in their discretion to adopt, in place of such curved line, a series of connecting straight lines defined by distances and courses and following generally the course of such curved line, but conforming strictly to the description of the boundary in the existing treaty provisions, and the geographical coordinates of the turning points of such line shall be stated by said Commissioners so as to conform to the gystem of latitudes and longitudes of the charts mentioned below, an the said Commissioners shall so far as practicable mark the course of the entire boundary line located and defined as aforesaid, by buoys and monuments in the waterways and by permanent range marks established on the adjacent shores or islands, and by such other boimdary marks and at such points as in the jud ent of the Commissioners it is desirable that the boundary should hdlso marked; and the line of the boundary c;,,,,,“,b,,m,,d_ defined and located as aforesaid shall be laid down by said Commissioners on accurate modern charts prepared or adopted by them for that purpose, in guadruplicate sets, certified and signed by the Commissioners, two uplicate ori 'nals of which shall be filed by them _ with each Governmenf; and the Commissioners shall also prepare in duplicate and file with each Government a joint report or reports g,,,,.-;,, describing in detail the course of said line and_the range marksand buoys marking it, and the character and location of each boundary mark. The majority of the Commissioners shall have power to render a decision. The line so defined and laid down shall be taken and deemed to be Declaration ct the international boundary as dehned and established by treaty pro- ”°““°“"' “"°· visions and the roceedings thereunder as aforesaid from its intersection with the St. Lawrence River to the mouth of Pigeon River. Airrrcuz V. The boundary from the mouth of Pigeon River to the north westernmost point of the Lake of the ll'0oda·. In order to complete and perfect the demarcation of the interna- m§u‘{{,’”;}° ‘,,’,g§j’,§ tional boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Eycrmw pgrrpgacg- Canada from the mouth of Pigeon River, at the western shore of oreiiie w?>d¤.° 8 Lake Superior, to the northwesternmost point of the Lake of the Woods, which boundary is defined in Article II of the Treaty of Peace