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Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la darniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symboie —^ signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc . peuvent dtre filmAs A des taux de reduction diffi&rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est filmA A partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'imagas nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 GK] lUND R( li r i ^_ .ij.^,^JHIIM CONVENTION BETWEEN GlIEAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OE AMERICA UESPECTINCr THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTllIES. (Alaska and P. ssa- MAQUODDY BaY.) Slfjncd at WaMmjlon, July 22, 1892. [ruitifications cxcJuinyed a.. ,.■ 'fi .ma . jTSs-. 2 Application will bo made witlinut dclny to tho rospootivo Legislative I'odies for the ii])])roprintioiis neci;.s8ary for tho ]m)soc;u- tion of tho survey, and tho ConiiMissions to ho ujijuiintod l)y the two (lovornmonts shall moot iit Ottawa within two months afltu- said appro])riation shall have boon mado, and shall ))rocooil as soon as practieal)lo tiioroaftor to the active disohar<,'o of tlioir dutios. Tiie respective Connnissions shall (•,omi)loto the survey and submit their final Reports thereof within two years from the date of their first meeting. Tiie Commissions shall, so far as they may Ix! able to agree, make a joint Eeport to (!ach of the two Goverinnonts, and thoy shall also report, either jointly or severally, to each (iovcrnniont on any points upon which thoy may be imablo to agree. Each Government shall pay the expenses of the Conunission appointed by it. Each Government engages to facilitate in every possible way any operations which, in pursuance of tho plan to bo f.greed u])ou by tho Commissions, may be conducted within its territory by tlie Commission of th»i other. Tho High Contracting Parties agree that, as soon as ])racticalile after the Report or Reports of the Commissions shall havo boon received, they will proceed to consider and establish the boundary- line in question. ARTICLE IL The High Contracting Parties agree that the Governments of Her Britannic Majesty in behalf of the Dominion of Canada and of the United States shall, with as little delay as possible, appoint two Connuissioners, one to bo named by each party, to dotorniino upon a method of more accurately marking the boundary-line between tho two countries in the waters of Passamaq noddy 15ay in front of and adjacent to Eastport, in the State of Maine, and to place buoys or fix such other boundary marks as thoy may deter- mine to bo necessary. Each (iovernmont shall j)ay the expenses of its own Commis- sioner, and cost of marking the boundary in such manner as sludl be determined upon shall be defrayed by the High Contracting Parties in equal moieties. ARTICLE IIL Tho present Convention shall Ix? duly ratified by Her Britanm"c Majesty and by the President of tho United States of America, by ami with the advice and consent of tho Senate thereof ; and tho ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within twtdvo months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Convention, and have hereunto allixod our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the 22nd day of July, one thousand eight himdred and ninety-two. (Signed) (L.S.) MICHAEL H. HERBERT. (Signed) (L.S.) JOHN W. FOSTER. \^- tho respnotivo for tho imisocu- ppoiiitoil 1)}' the ,vo inonthH nl'tov ]>r(icoo(l ns soon llicir (Uilics. the survey and rs from the tlato )e able to agree, moiits, and they ich (iovcnnnent ijT;r('e. the Comniissioii ny possihlc way be agreed \ipou territory by tlie nn as practicable sliall have been di tho l)nun(hirv- Govcrnnicnts of n of Canada and possible, appoint rty, to determine le boundary- line iiaquoddy liay in jf Maine, and to i they may deter- its own Comniis- manner as shall Ii