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 TREATY NITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1814. 221 abovementioned, in conformity with the provisions of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and shall cause the boundary aforesaid, from the source of the river St. Croix to the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions. The said commissioners shall make a map of 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 df Nova- Scotia, of the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, and of 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 conclusively fixing the said boundary. And in the event of the said two In cas, of din commissioners differing, or both, or either, of them, refusing, declining, ference, to be or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, l’€l°“·"‘l’°° shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a fmndiy °°w°" friendly sovereign or state, shall be made, in all respects, as in the latter part of the fourth article is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. ARTICLE THE SIXTH. Whereas, by the former treaty of peace that portion of the boundary Double um of the United States from the point where the forty-fifth degree of north the b0¤¤<l¤rx latitude strikes the river Iroquois or Cataraguy to the lake Superior, g,‘Q‘}°‘:_,l"]ll‘&,l“ was declared to be " along the middle of said river into lake Ontario, degree lit north through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by latitude. w be water between that lake and lake Erie, thence along the middle of said l;;;;;:?;;"" 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 dominious of his Britannic majesty or of the United States: In order, therefore, finally to decide these doubts, they shall be referred to two commissioners, 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 present article. The said commissioners Mmm and shall meet, in the first instance, at Albany, in the state of New-York, E¤l¤¤ and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they °°m"“”l°“‘°"‘ shall think fit: The said commissioners shall, by areport 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 eighty-three. And both parties agree to consider such designation and decision as final and conclusive. And in the event of the said two commis- In case of dissioners differing, or both, or either of them, refusing, declining, or wilfully ;*§*°°m°¤!- QI omitting to act, such reports, declarations or statements, shall be made by €,;_°;;rf;‘:;':::’;; them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or afriendty state shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth article P<>W¤\'· is contained, and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated. ARTICLE THE SEVENTH. It is further agreed that the said two last-mentioned commissioners, Commissionafter they shall have executed the duties assigned to them in the pre- cw Walk theh ceding article, shall be, and they are hereby authorized, upon their :;*:2, ‘;Q;,::);_° oaths impartially to fix and determine, according to the true intent of mention bethe said treaty of peace, of one thousand seven huncléed and eighty- !w¢¢¤\h¤l¤k¢¤ ·r