Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-29
AN OFFICIAL DIGEST.
h Decision Made Up of Answers
to Seven Questions.

The Decision Made Up of Answers
TO Seven Questions.
London, Oct. 21.-The following is
an official digest of the Alaska deci-
sion:
THE decision of the tribunal is made
up of answers to the seven questions
contained in the treaty of 1903 consti-
tuting the tribunal, as follows:
First question-What is intended as
the point Of commencement of line?
Answer: The line commences with
Cape Muzon.
Second question-What channel is
the Portland channel? Answer: The
Portland channel passes north of
Pearse and Wales islands, and enters
the ocean through Tongas Passage, be-
tween Wales and Sitklan islands.
Third question-What course should
the line take from the point of COM
mencement to the entrance of Port
land canal? Answer: A straight
line to the middle of the entrance of
Tongas Passage.
Fourth question-What point of the
Seth parallel is the line to be drawn
from the head Of the Portland channel
and what course should it follow
between these points? Answer: A
straight line between Salmon and Bear
rivers direct to the fifty-sixth parallel
of latitude.
Fifth question-In extending the
line of demarcation northward from
said point on the parallel of the Seth
degree Of north latitude following the
crest Of the mountains situated parallel
to the coast until its intersection with
the 141st degree Of longitude west of
Greenwich, subject to the condition
that IL such line should anywhere ex-
coed the distance of ten marine leagues
from the ocean, then the boundary be-
tween the British and the Russian ter
ritory should be formed by a line
parallel to the ~sinuosities of the coast
and distant therefrom not more than
ten marine leagues, was it the inten-
ton and meaning Of said convention
of 1925 that there should remain in
the exclusive possession Of Russia q
continuous fringe or strip of coast on
rine leagues in which, separating the
British possessions from the bays,
ports, inlets, Ravens and waters of the
ocean, and extending from the said
point on the seth degree of latitude
north to a point where such line OF
demarcation should intersect the 141st
degree of longitude west of the me
ridian of Greenwich? Answered in the
affirmative.
Sixth q~uestion--If the foregoing
question should be answered in the
negative in the event Of the summit OF
such mountains proving to be in places
than ten marine leagues from the
coast, should the width of lisiere which
wal to belong to Russia be measured
~ from the mainland coast to the
ocean strictly SO called, along a line
perpendicular thereto, or (2) was II
the intention and meaning Of the said
convention that, where the main
land coast is indented by deep inlets
forming part of the territorial waters
of Russia the width of the lisiere was
to be measured (a) from the line o.
the general direction Of the mainland
coast, or (b) from the line separating
the waters Of the ocean from the ter.
ritorial waters Of Russia, or (c) from
the heads Of the aforesaid inlets'
Required no answer after the fifth
question had been answered in the af'
frmative.
Seventh question-What, If any
exist, are the mountains referred to as
situated parallel to the coast, which
mountains, when within ten marine
leagues from the coast, are declared tt
form the eastern boundary? Answer;
The majority Of the tribunal have Sc
lected the line Of peaks starting at tn,
head Of Portland channel and running
along the high mountains, on the outel
edge OF the mountains, shown on thu
maps Of survey made in 1893. extending