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II IS understood that the , respective ex.
aminations will throw new li''t non the
subject IN controversy, and serve TO re.
move any erroneous impressions which
may have been made elsewhere. preildi-
cial to the rights of the United States
1t was among other reasons, with a view
Iot preventing the embarrassments which.
10 our peculiar system Of government. i'm.
pede and complicate negotiations involving
the territorial rights Of State. that /
thought il my duty, as you have been in.
formed on previous occasion TO propose
TO the Beitish Government through lis
minister Mt Washington, that early steps
should be taken TO adjust the points of
difference OH the line of boundary from
the entrance Of Lake Superior to the mos,
northwestern point of the Lake of the
woods, by the arbitration of friendly
power, in conformity TO the seventh arli
Gle Of the treaty Of Client. No answer
has yet been returned by the British Gov.
ernment to this proposition.
With Austria, France, Prussia, Rus.
STA, and the remaining powers of Europe,
am happy to inform you, our relations
continue to be of the most friendly char.
ac'er. With Belgium. treaty of con-.
MERGE aud navigation, based upon liberal
principles Of reciprocity and equality, was
concluded in March last, and, having been
ratified by the Belgian Government, will
be duly laid before the Senate. 1t is
subject oil congratuation that it provides
for The satisfactory adjustment Of long
standing question of controversy; thus re-
moving the only obstacle which could OBJ
struct the friendly and mutual advanta-
geous intercourse between the two nations.
A messenger has been despatched with
the Hanoverian treaty to Berlin, where,
according to stipulation, the Publications
are to be exchanged. l am happy TO an
nounce TO you, that hfer many delays and
difficulties, a treaty of commerce and nav
igaiion, between the United States and
Portugal, was concluded AMI signed at
Lisbon, on the Goth Of August last, by
the plenipotentiaries Of the two Govern
ments Its slipulations are founded upon
those principles Of mutual Iberality and
advantages which the United Suites have
always sought to make the basis of their
intercourse with foreign Powers, and il is
hoped they will tend to foster and strength.
en- the commercial Intercourse Of the two
countries.
Under the appropriation Of the last SEES
sion Of Congress, an xgent has been sen.
TO Germany for the purpose of promoting
the interests Of our tobacco trade.
The commissioners appointed under the
convention for the adjustment Of claims OF
citizens Of the United States upon Mexi-
CO, having met and organized a. WASH
iDgton 10 August last, the papers in the
possession of the Government, relating to
those claims, were communicated to. the
board. The claims not embraced by that
convention are now the subject of Begotia-
ton between the two Governments, through
The medium Of our minister at Mexico.
Nothing has occurred 10 disturb the
harmony Of our relations with the differ
ent Governments of South America. !
regret, however, to be obliged to inform
YOU that the claims Of our citizens upon
the late Republic of Columbia have not
yet been satisfied by the separate govern
mcnts into which It has been resolved.
The charge d'affairs of Brazil having
Expressed the intention Of his Govern
ment not to prolong the treaty of 1898, it
will cease TO be obligatory upon either
party on the 18th day of December, when
tho extensive commercial intercourse be-
tween the United States and that vast en-
pire, will no longer be regulated BY ex-
press stipulations.
1t affords me pleasure to communicate
to you that the Government Of Chill has
entered into an agreement 10 idemniiy the
claimants in the case Of the Macedonian,
for American property seized in 1919 /;
and to add that information has also been
received which justiies the hope Of an
early adjustment of the remaining claims
upon that Government.
The commissioners appointed in pIr-
suance of the convention between the u.
States and Texas, for making the boun-
Diary between them, have, according to
the last report receiYed from our commits
sioner, surveyed and established the whole
extent Of the boundary north along the
western bank of the Sabine river, from
Its entrance into the Gulf Of Mexico TO
, the thirty second degree Of north latitude.
The commission adjourned on the l6ih OF
June last, to assemble on the lst OF NO
t vember, for the purpose of establishing
) accurately the intersection Of the thirty
second degree of latitude with the western
) banks Of The Sabine, and the meridian line
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