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Plonildtentiaries to treat andlagree concerning a tem-
pKafy renewal of the said Article, that is to say—
His Majesty thp King of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain aMk Ireland. the Right Hon. Charles
Grant, a Member of his said Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Council. a Member of Parliament, and Vice Pre•
sident of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of
Trade and Foreign Plantations; and Henry Unwin
Addington, Esq.—
And the President of the United States of America,
Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty:
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 following
articles:
ART. 1.--All the provisions of the third Article of
the Conven:ion concluded between his Majesty the King
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the United States of America, on the 2001 October,
1818, shall be and are hereby further indefinitely ex-
tended and continued in force in the same manner as if
all the provisions of the said Articles were herein spe-
cifically recited.
ART. 11.—It shall be competent, however, to either
of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit
at any time after the 20th of Octber, 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.
Aar. 111. Nothing contained in this Convention, or
in the third Article of the Convention of the 20th of
October, 1818, hereby continued in force. shall be con-
.strued to impair, or in any manner affect, the claims
which either of the Contracting Parties may have to
any part of the country westward of the Stoney or
R.ocky Mountains.
Aar. IV. The present Convention shall be ratified,
and the Ratifications shall be exc4anged.in nine months,
or sooner, if possible.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the name, and have affixed thereto the seals
of their aims.
Done at Lanka, the 6th day of August, in the year of our
Lord 1127.
(L.S) CHARLES GRANT.
(L.S.) HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON.
(LE) ALBERT GALLATIN.

CONVENTION OF COMMERCE
BETWEEN HIS MAJOF ESTY AND THE UNITED STATES
AMERICA.
(Signed at London, Aorta 6, 1827.)
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the President of the United
States of America, being desirous of continuing in force
the existing commercial regulations between the two
countries, which are contained in the Convention con-
cluded between them on the 3d of July,lBls, and further
renewed by the Fourth Article of the Convention of the
20th of October, 1818, have, for that purpose, named
their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say—
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Charles
Grant, a Member of his said Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Council, a Member of Pailiament, and Vice Pre-
' silent of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of
Trade and Foreign Plantations; and Henry Unwin
.Addington, Esquire—
And the President of the United States of America,
Albeit Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty :
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 following
Articles:
Aar. the provisions of the Convention con-
cluded between his Majesty the King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United
Suites of America, 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 of October 1818, with the
exception therein contained as to St. Helena, are hereby
further indefinitely, and without the said exception. ex-
tended and continued in force, from the Gate of the ex-
piration of the said ten years, in the same manner as if
all the provisions of the said Convention of the 3d of
July 1815 were herein specifically recited.
Aar. shall be competent, hOwever, to either
of the Contracting Parties, in case either should think
fit, at any time atter the expiration of the said ten years
—that is, after the 20th of October 1828—on giving
due notice of twelve ttionibs to the other Contracting
Party. to annul and abrogate this Convention ; and it
shad. in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled
and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of
notice.
Aar. ILL—The present Convention shall be ratified,
and the ratifications shall be exchanged in nine months,
or sooner if possible.
la witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries
• have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals
of their arms.
Done at London. the 6th day of August, In the
boar Of Air Loin ma.
(t.. 5.) CHA. GRANT.
(L.S.) HENRY UN WIN ADDINGTON.
(L.S.. ALBERT GALLATIN.

CONVENTION arivreas HIS MAJESTY AND rim

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
RELATIVE TO THE REFERENCE TO ARBITRATION.
OF THE DISPUTED POINTS UNDER THE FIFTH
ARTICLE OF THE TREATY OF GHENT.
(Signed at Loadtm, September 29, 18271
Whereas it is provided by the fifth Article of the
Treaty of Ghent, that in case the Commissioners 1,-
pointed under that Article for the settlement of the
boundary line therein described should not be able to
agree upon such boundary line, the Report or Reports 1
of those Commissioners, stn ' the points on which
they bad differed should be su itted to some fritodly
tiarlie
Sovereign or State; and that decision given by
such Sovereign or State on snob points of different',
should be considered by the contracting parties as 6atil
and conclusive. That case having now arisen, and it
having therefore become expedient to proceed to and
regulate the reference as.above described, his Majesty
the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and,
Ireland, and the United States 'of America, boa foe,
that purpose named theirPtenipotentiaries, that is to sitlf,
His Majesty, on his pan, has appointed the Right
Hon. Chalks Grant, a Member of Parliament, a Mem-
ber of his said 51ajesty'stsoit Hononrable Privy Coun-
cil, and President of the Committee of the Privy Conn-,
eel for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations; and'
Henry tinsel's Addington. Esq :
And the President of the United States has appointed
Albert Gallatin, Dom Envoy Est/Stirdinary and Minis. 1
ter tlenipotentially at the Court d his Britannic Ma-
jeS 7 :—•
Wbo, after billing exchanged their respective full
powers, found to be in due and proper form, have
agreed to sad concluded the following Articles:
Alegicaa Id—lAis assreed that the points of difference
ingeb have asisea la the Sciagillebt of the boundary

Ghent, shall
de-
scribed in the fifth Article of the Treaty of
G
between the Blitish and American dominir
scrns, as de-
peereferred,
provided, to some friendly &ve-
,ishall be invited to investigate, and
igno State,
as
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whheroein
snake a decision upon such points of difference.
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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, it practicable, within two years after
the arbiter shall have signified'his intention to act as such.
AnT.ll.—The Reports and documents thereunto an-
nexed, 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 improba-
ble 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 sepatate 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 prepated, shall be mutually
communicated to each other by the Contracting Parties;
that is to say, by Great Britain to the Minister or Charge
d'Affaires of the United States at London, and by the
United States to his Britannic Majesty's Minister or
Charge d'Affaires at Washington, within 15 months
after the exchange of the ratifications of the present
Convention.
After such communication shall have taken place,
such party shall have the power of drawing up a se-
cond and definitive statement, if it thinks fit so to do,
in reply to the statement of the other party so commu-
nicated, which definitive statements shall also be mu•
tually communicated in she same manner as aforesaid,
to each other, by the Contracting Parties, Olhia 21
months after the exchange of the ratificatieli of the
present Convention.
Any. 111.—Each of the Contracting Pd ies shall,
within nine months after the exchange of ratifications of
this Convention, communicate to the other, in the same
manner as aforesaid, 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 sth 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 atter the exchange of the ratifications of this
Convention, to give authentic copies of such indivi-
dually 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 autho-
rity, 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 communi-
cated 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 there-
unto annexed, and other written documents laid before
the Commission under the filth Article of the Treaty
of Ghent, or of the other evidence' mutually commune-• 1
cared or applied for, as above provided, which it may
think fit.
Aar. 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 con.
muting parties as a delineation of the water courses,
and of the boundary lines in reference to the said water
courses as contended for by each party respectively, an
wh ch has accordingly been signed by the above named
Plenipotentiaries at the same time with the 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 ge•
neral illustration, any of the maps, surveys, or to.
pographical 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 or the above mentioned map A, or of a
section thereof, in which transcript each party ieraykey
down the highlands or other features of the country, as
ii 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.
sump, or topographical delineations, other than the
snap A, and Mitchell!' Map, intended to be thus an..
need by either party to the respective statements, shall
be communicated to.the other party in the same mariner
as aforesaid, within nine months after the exchange of
the ratifications of this Convention, and shall be sub-
ject to such objections and observations as the other
Contracting Party may deem it expedient to make
thereto, and shall annex to his first statement, either in
the margin of such transcript, map or maps, or otherwise.
Are. V. All the statements, papers, maps, and do-
cuments abovementioned, and which shall have been
mutually communicated as aforesaid, shall, without
any eddition, subtraction, or alteration whatsoever, be
jointly and simultaneously delivered in to the arbi-
trating 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.
ART. Vl.—ln order to facilitate the attainment of a
just and sound decision on the part et the arbiter, it is
agreed that, in case the said arbiter should desire
further elucidation or evidence, in regard to any specific
point contained in any of the,said statements submitted
to him, the requisition, fee such elucidation or evidence
shall be simultaneouslyveade to both parties, who shall
thereupon be permitted to bring further evidence, if re-
quired, and to make each a written reply to the specific
• s submitted by the said arbiter, but no further;'
such evidence and replies shall be immediately
communicated by each party to the other.
And in caselhe arbiter should find the topographi-
cal evidence laid, as aforesaid, before him, insufficient
tos the purposes of a sound and just decision, he shall
have the power of ordering additional surveys to be
made of any portioes of the disputed boundary line of
territory, as he may think fit ; which surveys shall be
made at the joint expease of the Contracting Parties,
and be considered as conclusive by them.
ART. vg. The decision of the arbiter, when given,
shall be tastes final and conclusive; and it shall be
curiek, withbat reserve, into immediate effect, by Com-
missioners airpointed for that purpose by the contract-
ing patties.
ART. VIM The Convention shall be ratified and the