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TREATY

BETWEEN

HER MAJESTY

ANn THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Foil THE

SEITLEMENT of the OREGON BOUNDARY.

Higned at Jf'ashinglou, June J 5, ]84().

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majes!;/.

184G.

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LONDON':
IMUNTED BY T. K. HARUISON.

T R E A T Y

BETWEEN

HER MAJESTY

AND

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

I'OK THE

SETTLEMENT oi Tin; OREGON BOIJND^VRY.

Hiipiod at IVdshington, JiiTip 1"), 1S4().

[Ratifications exchanged at Loudon, Jul}/ 17, 1846.]

IIKR Miijrsty the (^ueiMi of the United Iviii£,(loin ol' (ireat liiilain
and Ireland, and The United States of Anierii-a, deeming- it to he (lesiral)le
for the future welfare of hoth countries, that the state of doubt and
uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed res|)ecting the Sovereia;nty and
Government of the Territory on the North-v. est Coast of America, lyinjj;
westward of the Rocky or Stony Mountains, should he (inally terminated
hy an amicable compromise of the rights mutually asserted l)y tlie two
Parties over the said Territory, have respectively named Plenipotentiaries
to treat and agree concerning the terms of sucii settlement, that is to

say : —

Her Maj{!sty the Queen of the United Kingdom of (ireat Britain and
Ireland has. oii ller |)art, a])pointed the Uighl Honourable Richard
PaUenham, a .Mendxr of Her Majesty's 3Iost Honourable Privy Council,
and Her Majesty's Knvov Extraordinary and Minister Pleni])otentiary to
the United States; and the President of the United States oi' America
has, on his part, furnished with full powers, James Buchanan, Secretary
of State of the (jnitefi States; who. after having communicated to each
other their resj)ective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon ami concluded the following Articles: —

ARTICLK I.

Prom the point on the forty-ninth parallel of nortii latitude, where the
boundary laid down in existing Treaties and Conventions between (Jreat
Britain and the United States terminates, the line of boundarx between the
territories of Her Hritannic Majesty and those of the United States shall be
continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, to
the middle of tin- channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's
Island : and thence southerly, through the middle of the said channel, an 1
of K'uca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean: provided however, that the navi-
gation of the whole of the said channel and straits, south of the forty-ninth
parallel of north latitude, remain free and open to both Paities.

ARTFCLK II.

Krom the point at which the forty-ninth [)arallel of north latituch^
shall be found to intersect the great northern branch of the Columbia
River, the navigation of the said branch shall be free and open to the
Hudson's Bay Companv, and to all British subjects trading with the

sanic. to (lie point wlioro tlio said hrancli meets tin- main streatn of the
('(liiiinliia. and tlionce down the said main stream to the ocean, wilii lice
aeecss into and ihronftii the said river or rivers; it l)einj;- understood, that
all the usual portaj^es aloii";- tlic linf thus described, shall in like manner
he free and open.

I:i navi<;(itin!>- the said river or rivers, British suhjeels. with their
.'j,()0!ls and pnxlucc. shall l)!> treated on the same footini;- as citizens of the
Cuited Slates; it heinj;-, however, always nnchn-stood, that nothini;- in this
Article shall he construed as preventiuj;'. or intended to i)revent. the
(iovornmentoi'the United States i'roni makini;- any ref;ulalions respectin<;-
the navi<;'ation ol" the said river oi- rivers, not ineonsistenl with the
|>rt'>eiit 'I'reaty.

ARTICLK III.

In ilie rutur(> appropriation oi' tiu' territory south ol" the Ibrty-ninth
parallel of north latitude, as provided in the First Article ol' this Treaty,
the po.ssessoi-y iii>hts ol' the i huison's ISay Company, and of all Hrilish
siilijcets who may be already in t!ie oecupation of land (-r other pro|)crly
la^^^ull\ aeipiired within the said t(M-rit()i-y. shall be respected.

ARTIC'LK IV.

ihe parties

ARTICLE V.

Tile ])resent Treatv shall be ratihed bv Her IJritannie Majesty, and
l)\ the President of the'l'nited States, by and witii the advice and consent
of the Senate thereof; and the ratiheations shall be exchani>-e(l at London
at the expii-ation o\' six months from the date hereof, or sooner il
possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the
same, and haveallixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done at AVashim>-ton, the hfleenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one tliousand eii;-lit hundred and forty-six.

RICHARD RAKKNllAM. (L.S.)
.JAMES MUCHANAN. (L.S.)