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 CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1827. 363 found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to, and concluded the following articles. Art, 1. It is agreed, that the points of difference which have arisen Reference of in the settlement of the boundary between the American and British di!*`¤r¤¤c¤¤w¤ dominions, as described in the fifth article of the Treaty of Ghent, shall f“°“°“Y l°°`”°'· be referred, as therein provided, to some friendly Sovereign or State, who shall be invited to investigate, and make a decision upon, such points of difference. The two contracting Powers engage to proceed in concert, to the choice of such friendly Sovereign or State, as soon as the ratifications of this Convention shall have been exchanged, and to use their best endeavours to obtain a decision, if practicable, within two years after the Arbiter shall have signified his consent to act as such. Art. 2. The reports and documents, thereunto annexed, of the Com- Statements of missioners appointed to carry into execution the fifth article of the ¤h¤Y¤¤1>¤¤¤iv¤ Treaty of Ghent, being so voluminous and complicated, as to render it 3:33:,;*; b° improbable that any Sovereign or State should be willing or able to un- pl dertake the office of investigating and arbitrating upon them, it is hereby agreed to substitute for those reports, new and separate statements of the respective cases, severally drawn up by each of the contracting Parties, in such form and terms as each may think fit. The said statements, when prepared, shall be mutually communicated to each other by the contracting Parties, that is to say: by the United States to His Britannick Majesty’s Minister or Charge d’Affaires at Washington, and by Great Britain to the Minister or Charge d’Affaires of the United States at London, within fifteen months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention. After such communication shall have taken place, each Party shall have the power of drawing up a second and definitive statement, if it thinks fit so to do, in reply to the statement of the other Party, so communicated; which definitive statements shall also be mutually communicated, in the same manner as aforesaid, to each other, by the contracting Parties, within twenty-one months after the exchange of the ratifications of the Present Convention. Art. 3. Each of the contracting Parties shall, within nine months Each of the after the exchange of ratifications of this Convention, communicate to ;E‘;':;;;H“5)l;" the other, in the same manner as aforesaid, all the evidence intended to Q,,,,,,,,,,,, to HQ, be brought in support of its claim, beyond that which is contained in other, the evithe reports of the Commissioners, or papers thereunto annexed, and ;l°*L°°‘E.*€“g°d other written documents laid before the Commission, under the fifth 0 eo em ` article of the Treaty of Ghent. . Each of the contracting Parties shall be bound, on the application of the other Party, made within six months after the exchange of the ratifications, of this Convention, to give authentick copies of such individually specified acts of a publick nature, relating to the territory in question, intended to be laid as evidence before the Arbiter, as have been issued under the authority, or are in the exclusive possession, of each Party. No maps, surveys, or topographical evidence of any description, shall be adduced by either Party, beyond that which is hereinafter stipulated, nor shall any fresh evidence of any description, be adduced or adverted to, by either Party, other than that mutually communicated or applied for, as aforesaid. _ Each Party shall have full power to incorporate in,,or annex to, either its first or second statement, any portion of the reports of the Commissioners, or papers thereunto annexed, rnd other written documents laid