The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-03
VENEZUELA
AWARD.
Great Britain Loses Some Of
Her Interior and Coast
Claims.
FRONTIER At THE VAINI RIVER
Decision Considered a Com
promise The Vote IMAM
imous.

PARIS, Oct. 8, .J.-During the assem-
| bling today of the Anglo-V Venezuelan
Boundary Arbitration Commission 1t ap-
pears that Great Britain loses some of
| her claims IN the interior and on the coast
and that her frontier will start at the
Waini River. The award was unanimous.
promise rather than as favoring Vene-
zuela. 1t was read at 1905 P. M.
The decision, which was read by NJ F.
de Martens, the Umpire who has pre-
sided over the deliberation of the Tri-
bunal. as follows
THE undersigned, by these presents,
give and publish our decision determining
and judging, touching and concerning
the questions that have ben submitted to
us by said arbitration and, in conformity
with said arbitration, we decide, declare
and pronounde definitely that the Lne of
frontier of the colony of British Guiana
and the United States Of Venezuela Is as
follows
Starting on the coast at Point Playa,
the frontier shall follow straight line to
the confluence of the Barima and the
of the later to the source OF the Corentin,
otherwise called the Cutari River. Thence
1t shall proceed to the confluence OF the
Haiowa and the Anakura; thence follow
ing the thalweg of the Amakuru, to its
source in the plain OF Imataka; thence IN
southwesterly direction along the high
est ridge of the Imataka Mountains to
the highest point Of the Imataka chain,
opposite the source of the Barina and
the principal chain of the lima taxa Noun
tains; thence in a southWest directaon 10
Following the thalweg of the Acara-
bisi to the Cuyuni, the northern bank OF
which 1t shall follow in westerly di.
rection to the confluence of the Cuyuni
and the Vanamu thence along the thai
veg of the Vanamu to its westernmost
source; thence in Va straight line to the
summit of Mount Roraima; thence TO the
source Of the Cotinga.
From this point the frontier shall fol-
low the thalweg OF the Cotinga 10 IT'S
confluence with the Takutu; thence along
the thalweg of the Takutu to Its source;
thence in a straight line to the most west
ern point of the Akarai Mountains, the
highest ridge Of which it shall follow to
the source of the Corentin, whence II VIII
follow the course of the river.
.It is stipulated that the frontier here
by delimitated reserves and In no way
prejudices questions actually existing OF
that may hereafter arise between Great
Rritain and the Republic of Brazil, or
between the Republic of Brazil ana Nene-
zuela In fixing the above deilmltallon,
the Arbitrators consider and decide tnal
in time of peace the rivers Gmakuru and
Barima shall be open to navigation py
the merchant shipping OF all nations,
due reserve being made with regard
to equitable regulations ana lle Pay tncit
Of light dues and other like imposts. on
condition that the dues levied by Vene-
zuela and British Guiana on ships trav-
ersing the parts of those rivers owned py
them respectively shall be imposed in ac-
cordance with the same tariff on Venezue-
Ian and British vessels. These tarlns are
not to exceed those of all other countries
The award proceeds also upon tne conai- e,1.ls.
Guiana shall impose any customs duty
on goods carried in vessels, ships or boats
passing through these rivers, such GUS
toms being levied only on goods lanuea
rnon Venezuelan territory or on the ter
ritory of the Great Britain respectively.
M de Martens was accompanied py the
other -four members or the .lrlounal Alter
they had taken their seats in the presence
of the counsel of the two parties, or SIR
Edmund J. Monson, British AMBASSADOR
to France, the entire staff of the. British
Embassy and a large concourSe of people,
M z de Martens rose and, in his opening
sentences announced that the Court was
going to read the award, which had been
unanimously arrived at, IN Engnsn ana xn n
tary to Baron Russell Of killoWen, one OF
the British members of the Tribunal, read
the English text and M. de Martens read
the French.
After the President Of the Tribunal rose,
and, speaking in English, said ne was
glad to announce tina, after three r-Untns
of hard work the court had unanimously
decided upon the award which had just
been read 1t was a pleasant duty now
to restore the former good understanding
between the contending parties. He then
eloquently thanked his colleagues and the
respective counsel rendering on behalf of
the Tribunal special thanks for the hos
pitality extended to all by France. These
sentiments he repeated in French.
Mr. Benjanin Harrison, the principal
counsel for Venezuela then made few
remarks, and was followed by Sir Richard
Webster principal counsel for Great
Britain. who thanked the French Govern
ment for It's hospitality and said that
England and Venezuela would work side
by side in harmony.
The sitting was then adjourned.