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 TREATY—GREAT BRITAIN—LAKE OF THE WOODS. ~ FEB. 24, 1925. 21 l l Each shall likewise assume responsibility for any damage or in- jury which may hereafter result to it or to its inha itants rom the regulation of the level of Lake of the Woods in the manner provided for in the present Convention. ARTICLE X. The Governments of the United States and Canada shall each be S Mngitgigltmm ¤f¤>· released from responsibility for any claims or expenses arisin in the °° y' territory of the other in connection with the matters provided for in Articles VII, VIII, and IX. In consideration, however of the undertakings of the United ;,,,??,$,'.§§}§§ °i,’}E’&’ States as set forth in Article VIII, the Government of Canada shall §g·“g°éh¤,;?j*”~*** by pay to the Government of the United States the sum of two hundred and seventy-ive thousand dollars ($275,000) in currency of the United States. Should this sum fprove insuilicient to cover the cost of such undertakings one-half o the excess of such cost over the said sum shall, if t e expenditure beincurred within five ears of the coming into force o the present Convention, be paidy by the Government of Canada. l - ARTICLE XI. No dive1·sion shall henceforth be made of any waters from the ,,§§°°‘§°‘§,°,{‘,,‘¥,*‘,§§,$ Lake of the Woods watershed to any other watershed except by •¢¤¤r·. authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective territories and with the approval of the Intema- tional J omt Commission. ARTICLE XII. The present Convention shall be ratified in accordance with the ¤§,§{"‘““‘° °'“‘““‘”‘ constitutional methods of the High Contracting Parties and shall take effect on the exchange. of t e ratifications, which shall take place at Washington or Ottawa as soon as possible. ` In faith whereof the above named Plenkgotentiaries have signed °'“"“°‘“°“‘ the present Convention and aiiixed thereto eir respective seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the 24th day o February, 19254 [sim.] Cinntns Evans Huomus sun] Enxnsr Laroxzrrn AND WHEREAS the said convention has been duly ratified on ch§ggg{°¤‘*°¤’ °*‘ both parts, and the ratification of the two Governments were ex- cha d in the city} of Washington on the seventeenth day of July, oneltgimsand nine undred and twenty-Hve; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Calvin Coolidge, Presi- P"’°‘““‘°"*°”— dent of the United States of America, have caused the sai conven- tion to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereo may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. DONE at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [smx.] twenty-five, and of the Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundred) and fiftieth. Canvm Coomncn By the President: FRANK B Knrmooa Secretary of State.

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