The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-17

nectiCut river, to be run and marked, par
suant to the provisions of the said treaty: the
said commissioners shall meet at Boston, and
have power to adjourn to such other place or
places as they shall think fit they shah
have power to appoint secretary, and en-
ploy such surveyors add other assistants as
they shall judge necessary. The said COM
missioners shall draw up a report of their
proceedings, which shall describe the boun-
diary line aforesaid, and partiCrlarize the Ion
gitude and latitude of the north-westernmost
head of Connecticut river, duplicates of
which report, uHder the hands and seals of
the said commissioners, or Of majority of
them, together with duplicates of their &C
counts, shall be delivered to such persons as
may be severally authorized to receive the
same, in behalf of their respective govern
ments, and the decision and proceedings of
the said commissioners, made and had as
aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive.
ARTICLE w.,
1t is further agreed, that the aforesaid COM.
Inissieners shall respectively be paid in such
manner as shall be agreed between the two
parties, such agreement to be settled at the
time of the ratification of this convention !;
and all other expenses, incurred BY the said
commissioners. sliall be betrayed jointly by
the two parties, the same being previously
ascertained and allowed by the said commits
sioners; and in case Of death, sickness, or
necessary absence, the place of any commits
sioner shall be supplied in the same manner
as such commissioner was appointed, and
the new commissioner shall take the same
oath and do the same duties.
ARTICLE ".
tits agreed that line drdzv,i dae-4oest
from the Lake Of the Hoods along the for
t. ninth parallel of north latitude, shall be
the line of demarkation between his males
tyy'c fer 81 80
to the westward of the said lake, as far as
the territories Of the United States ertend
in that quarter, and that the said line shall,
TO that ertent, form the southern boundary
of his majesty's said territories, and the
northern boundary Of the said territories of
the United States, provided that nothing in
the present article shall be construed to ex-
tend to the northwest coast of America, or
to the territories belonging to, or claimed by
either party, on the continent of America,
to the westward of the Stony Mountains.
ARTICLE VI.
1t is agreed by the United States that his
majestys subjects shall have at all times
free access from his majesty's aforesaid ter
ritories by land or inland navigation, into the
aforesaid territories of the United States, to
the river Mississippi, with the goods and eff
fects of his majesty's' said subjects, in order
to enjoy the benefit of the navigation of that
river, as secured to- them by the treaty of
peace between his majesty and the United
States, and also by the third article of the
treaty OF amity, commerce, and navigation
OF 1894. Audit is further agreed that his
majesty IS subjects shall in like manner. and
at all times, have free access to all tile waters
and rivers falling intothe western side of the
river Mississippi, and to the navigation of the
said river.
!. &c.. -, ARTICLE VII. ,.~~ -; .s.s..'.
T. 1t is agreed that the privileges of inter
course and trade by land, or inland naviea-
tion, secured to his majesty's subjects, and
to the citizens Of the United States, and TO
the Indians dwelling on each side of the
boundary line between the respective ter
rltories OF the high contracting parties, on
the continent of America, by the third ar
ticle of the treaty of amitv, commerce. and
navigation between his britannia majesty
and the United States of America, signed at
London the 18th Of November, 1884, as we'll
as by the explanatory article, concluded at
Philadelphia, in 1896, shall extend to all the
territories belonging to either of the high con-
tracing powers the continent of Ameri-
ca (the actual settlements of the Hudson's
bay company and the intermediate neigh
borhood OF those settlements always except
ed) situated en-, either side of any part Of
the boundary line described in the preceding
tiS.e, ~ Oil tliC anu privileges
secured to his maiesty's subjects and to the
citizens of the United States, by the afore-
said article of the treaty of. 1894, as well
as by tive explanatory article of 1896, shall
be enjoyed by them in the aforesaid terrific
ries. 1t is farther agreed that goods or
merchandise imported BY land or inland ma
vigation from the territories of the one DOW
er into those of the other, shall not be sub
jected to other or higher duties, when SO
imported, than would be payable for the
same goods if imported into the said terrific
ries from Europe, or from beyond the seas
81 therefore, that the value of the said goods
and merchandise shall be estimated by their
respective custom-house officers, in the same
manner as ii they were so directly imported
from Europe OF from beyond the seas. 1t is
farther agreed that no duties shall be exact
ed from the traders of either power, for Ii
censes to trade with the Indians for them
selves, their servants, or their canemen or
tor passes for their canes, or for any other
purposes whatever. But if such licenses are
required by either power as a measure of
police or internal regulation, they shall be
granted by the power requiring them to the
subjects or citizens Of the other without any
fee or gratuity, and shall not be withheld
from any person demanding them for him
self, his servants, or his canemen, except
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