The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-21
A Temporary Alaskan Boundary
Line Has Been Fixed.
TEXT OF MODUs yIVENDI
SATISFACTORY BOTH 10 UNITED
STATES AND CANADA.
Latter Not Permitted to Reach Any
Point On Lynn Canal Nor Is Per-
mission Given For Free Port Nor
Even Free Transportation of
Goods Across American Territory.

Washington, Oct. 20.--Mr. Tower, the
British charge here, called at the state
department today and handed to Sec
rotary Hay a note formally accepting
| for his government the proposition
for the temporary adjustment of the
Alaskan boundary line proposed by
Secretary Hay in his note of yester-
day.
With that note the long expected
modus vivendi relative to the veXed
boundary question went into effect.
This result has been brought about
through the direct negotiation of Sec
rotary Hay and Mr.. Tower after sew
eral failures in the past. The state
department is confident it has con-
served the American interests in the
matter without unjustly treating
Canada.
The divisional line on the west by
the Dalton trial is placed twenty-five
harbor which is regarded under the
treaty as tidewater mark, so the
Canadians are not allowed to reach any
point on the Lynn canal.
No Port For Canada.
Moreover there is no permission
given for free port or even for the
Tree lldHSlel dciOSS kAtflSIIIdih t~lii-
tory of Canadian goods except of
miners belongings. These matters may
figure later on, when it comes to a
permanent boundary line but they are
not touched upon in this modus.
The modus vivendi fellows the prece-
dent established by Secretary Evarts
in 1873, in agreement upon a temporary
boundary on the Stikine river in
Alaska by an exchange of notes.
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twenty-five and one-quarter statue
miles from the head of navigation on
Chilkat inlet of Lynn canal and on the
Klehinie river, twelve miles further in
land, and the whole valley of Porcu-
pine is included Within the American
lines.
AS to White and Chilkoot passes, the
line is fixed at the summit of the
water shed, being the points for which
some time past have been observed by
the customs authorities of the two
countries. The text Of the modu5
vivendi as finally agreed to is as fol-
lows:
Text of the Modus.
ut is hereby agreed between the gov
ernments of the United States and of
Great Britain that the boundary line,
between Canada and the territory of
Alaska in the region about the head of
Lynn canal shall be Professionally fixed
without prejudice to the claims of
either party in the permanent adjust
ment of the international boundary, as
follows:
I'm the region of the Dalton trail, a
line beginning at the peak west of
Porcupine creek marked on the map
No l of the United States commission,
Dec. 81. 1895, and ON sheet No. Is, of the
British commission, Dec. 81. 1895 with
No $500, thence running to the Klehinie
Cor Klaheela) river in the direction Of
the peak north of that river, marked
5000 on the aforesaid United States
map ard 5025 on the aforesaid British
map; thence following the high or
right bank of the said Klehinie river to
the junction thereof with the Chilkat
river a mile and a half, more or less,
north of Klukwan.
Privileges of Canadians.
provided that persons proceeding to
or from Porcupine creek shall be per-
mitted to follow the trail between the
said creek and the said junction of the
rivers into and across the territory on
the Canadian side of the temporary
line wherever the trail crosses to such
side, and subject to such reasonable
regulations for the protection of the
revenue as the Canadian government
may prescribe; TO carry Win tnefn
over such parts or part of the trail
between the said points as may lie on
the Canadian side of the temporary
line, such goods and articles as they de-
sire without being required to pay
any customs duty on such goods and
articles, and from said junction TO the
summit of the peak east of the
Chilkat river marked on the aforesaid
map No. 10. of the United States COM
mission. with the number $40 and on
the map No. II, of the aforesaid Brit
ish commission, with the number $3.50,
on the Dyea and Skagway trails the
SUBMITS of the Chilkoot and White
passes.
Retard Their Rights.
ut is understood as formerly set
forth in communications of the de-
partment of state of the United States
that the citizens or subjects Of each
power found by this arrangement
within the temporary jurisdiction of the
other snail suffer no diminution Of the
rights and privileges which they row
enjoy
THE government OF the United
States will at once appoint an officer
or officers in conjunction with an Of
foer or officers 70 be named by her
majesty's government to mark the
temporary line agreed npof. by the
erection of posts, stakes or other APP
temporary MARKS