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 362 CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1827. provisions of the said Convention of the 3d of July, 1815, were herein specifically recited. $,,00,,,; Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think ht, at any time after the expiration of the said ten years; that is, after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this Convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice. .1,,,,,, Art. 3. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratitications ` shall be exchanged in nine months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have aiilxed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. ALBERT GALLATIN, (1.. CHARLES GRANT, L. s. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON. 21..:;) C 0 N V E N T I O N scp, 29, 182*/• Between the United States cy" America and Great Brztam. Ratifications ?$;fgg*£:,8 Wrinnnns it is provided by the fifth article of the Treaty of Ghent, Proolrimatioit that, in case the Commissioners appointed under that article, for the °¥*g¤IS<=gd<=¤* settlement of the boundary line therein described, should not be able ji;,;,,`?, ‘,8gg_ to agree upon such boundary line, the report or reports of those Com- Ante, 220. missioners, stating the points on which they had differed, should be C°¤*ml$Sl°¤· submitted to some friendly Sovereign or State, and that the decision ,°;;;ml;°3fIQ:;(lf;; given by such Sovereign or State, on such points of difference, should treaty ofwliem. be considered by the contracting Parties as final and conclusive: that case having now arisen, and it having, therefore, become expedient to proceed to and regulate the reference, as above described, the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have, for that purpose, named their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States has appointed Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Britannick Majesty; and his said Majesty, on his part, has appointed the Right Honorable Charles Grant, a member of Parliament, a member of His said Majesty’s most Honorable Privy Council, and President of the Committee of the Privy Council for affairs of trade and foreign plantations, and Henry Unwin Addington, Esq. who, after having exchanged their respective full powers,