which he may have received from his Government for the use of the said commission, conformably to the stipulations contained in the third article of the said convention. ARTICLE VI. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London, in six months from this date, or sooner if possible. Ratification of this convention. In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries aforesaid, by virtue of their respective full powers, have signed the same, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at London this thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. ALBERT GALLATIN. WILLIAM HUSKISSON. [L. S.] L. S. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON. L. S.] GREAT BRITAIN, 1827. CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. CONCLUDED AUGUST 6,1827; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED APRIL 2, 1823; PROCLAIMED MAY 15, 1823. Object of the treaty. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equally desirous to prevent, as far as possible, all hazard of misunderstanding between the two nations, with respect to the territory on the northwest coast of America, west of the Stoney or Rocky Mountains, after the expiration of the third article of the convention concluded between them on the twentieth of October, 1818, and also with a view to give further time for maturing measures which shall have for their object a more definite settlement of the claims of each party to the said territory, have respectively named their Plenipotentiaries to treat and agree concerning a temporary renewal of the said article, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Álbert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Negotiators. Britannick Majesty; and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Charles Grant, a member of his said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, and Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations, and Henry Unwin Addington, Esquire; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: Third article of ARTICLE I. All the provisions of the third article of the convention concluded between the United States of America and His Majesty the convention of 20th King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the twentieth of October, 1818, shall be, and they are hereby, further indefinitely extended and continued in force, in the same man ner as if all the provisions of the said article were herein specifically October, 1818. recited. ARTICLE II. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the twen- Convention may be tieth of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months annulled. to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice. ARTICLE III. Nothing contained in this convention, or in the third article of the convention of the twentieth of October, 1818, hereby con- Certain claims not tinued in force, shall be construed to impair, or in any man- to be affected by this ner affect, the claims which either of the contracting parties treaty. may have to any part of the country westward of the Stoney or Rocky Mountains. ARTICLE IV. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in nine months, or sooner if possible. Ratifications. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. ALBERT GALLATIN. CHA. GRANT. [L. S.] L. S. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON. [L. S. GREAT BRITAIN, 1827. RENEWAL OF COMMERCIAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. CONCLUDED AUGUST 6, 1827; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED APRIL 2, 1828; PROCLAIMED MAY 15, 1828. Object of the convention. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of continuing in force the existing commercial regulations between the two countries, which are contained in the convention concluded between them on the third of July, 1815, and further renewed by the fourth article of the convention of the twentieth of October, 1818, have, for that purpose, named their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: On the part of His The President of the United States of America, Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His On the part of the Britannick Majesty; and His Majesty the King of the United States. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Charles Grant, a member of His said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, and Vice- Majesty. President of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations; and Henry Unwin Addington, Esquire; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: Articles agreed on. ARTICLE I. All the provisions of the convention concluded between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the third of July, 1815, and further continued for the term of ten years by the fourth article of the convention of the twentieth of October, 1818, with the exception therein contained as to St. Helena, are hereby further indefinitely, and without the said. exception, extended and continued in force, from the date of the expiration of the said ten years, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the said convention of the third of July, 1815, were herein specifically recited. ARTICLE II. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the expiration of the said ten years, that is, after the twentieth of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice. ARTICLE III. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in nine months, or sooner if possible.1 In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. ALBERT GALLATIN. CHA. GRANT. [L. S.] L. S. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON. [L. S.] GREAT BRITAIN, 1827. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN. CONCLUDED SEPTEMBER 29, 1827; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED APRIL 2, 1828; PROCLAIMED MAY 15, 1828. Commissioners. Whereas it is provided by the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, that, in case the Commissioners appointed under that article, for the settlement of the boundary line therein described, should not be able to agree upon such boundary line, the report or reports of those Commissioners, stating the points on which they had differed, should be submitted to some friendly Sovereign or State, and that the decision given by such Sovereign or State, on such points of difference, should be considered by the contracting parties as final and conclusive: That case having now arisen, and it having, therefore, become expedient to proceed to and regulate the reference as above described, the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have, for that purpose, named their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States has appointed Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Britannick Majesty; and His said Majesty, on his part, has appointed the Right Honourable Charles Grant, a member of Parliament, a member of His said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and President of the Committee of the Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations, and Henry Unwin Addington, Esquire; Who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE I. It is agreed that the points of difference which have arisen in the settlement of the boundary between the American and Reference of dif British dominions, as described in the 5th article of the ferences. treaty of Ghent, shall be referred, as therein provided, to some friendly Sovereign or State, who shall be invited to investigate, and make a decision upon, such points of difference. The two contracting Powers engage to proceed in concert, to the choice of such friendly Sovereign or State, as soon as the ratifications of this convention shall have been exchanged, and to use their best endeavours to obtain a decision, if practicable, within two years after the Arbiter shall have signified his consent to act as such. ARTICLE II. The reports and documents, thereunto annexed, of the Commissioners appointed to carry into execution the 5th article of the Statement of the treaty of Ghent, being so voluminous and complicated as respective cases to render it improbable that any Sovereign or State should be willing or able to undertake the office of investigating and arbitrating upon them, it is hereby agreed to substitute, for those reports, new and separate statements of the respective cases, severally drawn up by each of the contracting parties, in such form and terms as each may think fit. The said statements, when prepared, shall be mutually communicated to each other by the contracting parties, that is to say, by the United States to His Britannick Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, and by Great Britain to the Minister or Chargé d'Affaires of the United States at London, within fifteen months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention. After such communication shall have taken place, each party shall have the power of drawing up a second and definitive statement, if it thinks fit so to do, in reply to the statement of the other party, so communicated; which definitive statements shall also be mutually communicated, in the same manner as aforesaid, to each other, by the contracting parties, within twenty-one months after the exchange of ratifications of the present convention. ARTICLE III. Each of the contracting parties shall, within nine months after the exchange of ratifications of this convention, communicate to Evidence intended the other, in the same manner as aforesaid, all the evidence to be offered. intended to be brought in support of its claim, beyond that which is contained in the reports of the Commissioners, or papers thereunto annexed, and other written documents laid before the Commission, under the 5th article of the treaty of Ghent. Each of the contracting parties shall be bound, on the application of the other party, made within six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, to give authentick copies of such individually specified acts of a publick nature, relating to the territory in question, intended to be laid as evidence before the Arbiter, as have been issued under the authority, or are in the exclusive possession, of each party. No maps, surveys, or topographical evidence of any description, shall be adduced by either party, beyond that which is hereinafter stipulated, nor shall any fresh evidence of any description be adduced or adverted to, by either party, other than that mutually communicated or applied for as aforesaid. Each party shall have full power to incorporate in, or annex to, either its first or second statement, any portion of the reports of the Commissioners, or papers thereunto annexed, and other written documents laid before the Commission under the 5th article of the treaty of Ghent, or of the other evidence mutually communicated or applied for as above provided, which it may think fit. Мара. ARTICLE IV. The map called Mitchell's map, by which the framers of the treaty of 1783 are acknowledged to have regulated their joint and official proceedings, and the map A, which has been agreed on by the contracting parties, as a delineation of the water-courses, and of the boundary lines in reference to the said water-courses, as contended for by each party respectively, and which has accordingly been signed by the above-named Plenipotentiaries, at the same time with this convention, shall be annexed to the statements of the contracting parties, and be the only maps that shall be considered as evidence, mutually acknowledged by the contracting parties, of the topography of the country. It shall, however, be lawful for either party to annex to its respective first statement, for the purposes of general illustration, any of the maps, surveys, or topographical delineations, which were filed with the Commissioners under the 5th article of the treaty of Ghent, any engraved map heretofore published, and also a transcript of the above-mentioned map A, or of a section thereof, in which transcript each party may lay down the highlands, or other features of the country, as it shall think fit; the water courses and the boundary lines, as claimed by each party, remaining as laid down in the said map A. But this transcript, as well as all the other maps, surveys, or topographical delineations, other than the map A, and Mitchell's map, intended to be thus annexed, by either party, to the respective statements, shall be communicated to the other party, in the same manner as aforesaid, within nine months after the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, and shall be subject to such objections and observations as the other contracting party may deem it expedient to make thereto, and shall annex to his first statement, either in the margin of such transcript, map or maps, or otherwise. ARTICLE V. All the statements, papers, maps, and documents, above mentioned, and which shall have been mutually communicated as aforesaid, shall, without any addition, subtraction, or alteration, whatsoever, be jointly and simultaneously delivered in to the arbitrat Statements, &c., to be delivered. |