be submitted to some friendly sove. reign or state, and that the decision given by such sovereign state, on such points of difference, should 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 Britannic Majesty; and his said Majesty, on his part, has appointed the Right Honoura. ble CHARLES GRANT, a Member of Parliament, a Member of His said Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and President of the Committee of the Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations; and HENRY UDWIN ADDINGTON, Esq., who, after having exchanged their respective full pow. ers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to, and concluded the following articles :

ARTICLE I.

It is agreed that the points of difference which have arisen in the settlement of the boundary between the American and British dominions, as described in the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, shall 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 en. gage to proceed in concert to the choice of such friendly sovereign

or state, as soon as the ratifica. tions 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 signi fied his consent to act as such. ARTICLE II.

The reports and documents thereunto annexed, of the commissioners appointed to carry into execution the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, being so voluminous and complicated as to render it improbable that any sovereign or state should be willing or able to undertake 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 Britannic Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, and by Great Britain to the Minister or Chargé 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 com. municated; 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 ratifications of the present convention.

ARTICLE III.

Each of the contracting parties shall, within nine months after the exchange of ratifications of this convention, communicate to the other, in the same manner as afore said, all the evidence intended to be brought in support of its claim, beyond that which is contained in the reports of the Commissioners, or papers thereunto annexed, and other written documents laid before the Commission under the fifth 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 authentic copies of such individually specified acts, of a public 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, and other written documents, laid before the Commission under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, or of the other evidence mutually communicated or applied for, as above provided, which it may think fit.

ARTICLE IV.

The map called Mitchell's Map, by which the framers of the treaty of 1783 are acknowledged to have regulated their joint and official proceedings, and the map A, which has been agreed on by the contracting parties, as a delineation of the water courses, and of the boun. dary lines in reference to the said water courses, as contended for by each party, respectively, and which has accordingly been signed by the above named plenipotentiaries, at the same time with this convention, shall be annexed to the statements of the contracting parties, and be the only maps that shall be considered as evidence mutually acknowledged by the contracting parties of the topography of the country.

It shall, however, be lawful for either party to annex to its respective first statement, for the purposes of general illustration, any of the maps, surveys, or topographical delineations, which were filed with the Commissioners under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, any engraved map heretofore published, and also a transcript of the abovementioned map A, or of a section thereof, in which transcript each party may lay down the highlands, or other features of the country, as it shall think fit; the water courses and the boundary lines, as claimed by each party, remaining as laid down in the said map A.

But this transcript, as well as all the other maps, surveys, or topographical delineations, other than the map A, and Mitchell's map, intended to be thus annexed, by either party, to the respective statements, shall be communicated to the other party, in the same manner as aforesaid, within nine months after the

exchange of the ratifications of this Convention, and shall be subject to such objections and observations as the other contracting party may deem it expedient to make thereto, and shall annex to his first state. ment, either in the margin of such transcript, map or maps, or other wise.

ARTICLE V.

All the statements, papers, maps, and documents, abovementioned, and which shall have been mutually communicated as aforesaid, shall, without any addition, subtraction, or alteration, whatsoever, be jointly and simultaneously delivered in to the arbitrating sovereign or state, within two years after the exchange of ratifications of this convention, unless the arbiter should not, within that time, have consented to act as such; in which case, all the said statements, papers, maps, and documents, shall be laid before him within six months after the time when he shall have consented so to act. No other statements, papers, maps, or documents, shall ever be laid before the arbiter, except as hereinafter provided.

ARTICLE VI.

In order to facilitate the attainment of a just and sound decision on the part of the arbiter, it is agreed, that in case the said arbiter shou d desire further elucidation or evidence, in regard to any specific point contained in any of the said statements submitted to him, the requisition for such elucidation or evidence shall be simultaneously made to both parties, who shall thereupon be permitted to bring further evidence, if required, and to make, each, a written reply to the specific questions submitted by the said arbiter, but no further; and such evidence and replies shall be

immediately communicated by each party to the other.

And in case the arbiter should find the topographical evidences laid, as aforesaid, before him, insufficient for the purposes of a sound and just decision, he shall have the power of ordering additional sur. veys to be made of any portions of the disputed boundary line or territory as he may think fit; which surveys shall be made at the joint expense of the contracting parties, and be considered as conclusive by them.

ARTICLE VII.

The decision of the arbiter, when given, shall be taken as final and conclusive, and it shall be carried, without reserve, into immediate effect, by commissioners appointed for that purpose by the contracting parties.

ARTICLE VIII.

This convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged, in nine months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof, we, the re

spective plenipotentiaries, have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of our arms. Done at London, the twentyninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. ALBERT GALLATIN. [L. S. CHARLES GRANT. [L. S.] HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON. [L. S.]

The said convention, and the respective ratifications of the same, were exchanged at London on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, by William Beach Lawrence, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States at the Court of his Britannic Majesty,

and the Right Honourable Charles Grant and Henry Unwin Adding. ton, Esquire, on the part of their respective governments.

A Convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The United States of America and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equally desirous to prevent, as far as possible, all hazard of misunderstanding between the two nations with respect to the territory of the Northwest Coast of America, west of the Stony or Rocky Mountains, after the expiration of the third article of the Convention concluded between them on the 20th of October, 1818; and, also, with a view to give further time for maturing measures which shall have for their object a more definite settlement of the claims of each party to the said territory, have respectively named their plenipotentiaries, to treat and agree concerning a temporary renewal of the said article.

ARTICLE I.

All the provisions of the third article of the Convention concluded between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 20th of October, 1818, shall be, and they are hereby, further indefinitely extended and continued in force, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the said article were herein specifically recited,

ARTICLE II.

It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties,

Charles Grant, and Henry Unwin Addington, Esquire, on the part of their respective governments.

A Convention between the United States of America, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The United States of America, and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of continuing in force the existing commercial regulations between the two countries, which are contained in the Convention concluded between them on the 3d of July, 1815, and further renewed by the fourth article of the Convention of the 20th October, 1818, have, for that purpose, named their respective plenipotentiaries; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the fol. lowing articles.

ARTICLE I.

All the provisions of the Convention concluded between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 3d of July, 1815, and further continued for the term of ten years by the fourth article of the Convention of the 20th October, 1818, with the exception therein contained, as to St. Helena, are hereby further indefinitely, and without the said exception, extended and continued in force, from the date of the expira. tion of the said ten years, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the same Convention of the 3d

of July, 1815, were hercin specifi cally recited.

ARTICLE II.

It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, 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.

ARTICLE III.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in nine months, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof, the respec,

tive plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have fixed 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. [L. S.] CHARLES GRANT. [L. S.] HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON, [L. S.]

The said Convention, and the respective ratifications of the same, were exchanged at London on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, by William Beach Lawrence, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States of America at the Court of his Britannic Majesty, and the Right Honourable Charles Grant and Henry Unwin Addington, Esquire, on the part of their respective governments.