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of North, South, East, and West are in alternate sections, in their proper cardinal points, stars forming a band in the upper part.

The memorial panels and windows that light the mortuary contain female figures representing the thirteen original States and Ohio.

The body of Garfield is in the crypt underneath the statue buried in a bronze casket. The entrance to the crypt is by two spiral stairways from the back of the mortuary.

The memorial was designed by Mr. George Keller of Hartford, Connecticut.

The total contribution to the fund, April 1, 1889, is given by the Association as $134,755.76, divided as follows:

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Buried in Rural Cemetery at Albany, New York, in the Arthur family burial plot, which is located on one of the highest knolls, and is approached by a broad flight of five granite steps; the pedestals of its balustrade have bronze urns resting upon them. Granite pillars with heavy bronze chains rail in the balance of the enclosure.

In the centre of the plot is the monument. - a stone sarcophagus. The sarcophagus is eight feet long, four feet wide, and three feet high, and is made from a single block of Quincy granite, perfectly plain and highly polished. It is supported by two plain, highly polished pedestals of the same material, resting upon a broad base of Vermont granite, much lighter in color than the sarcophagus itself. The base is supported by a smoothly dressed granite plinth, ten feet long and six feet broad. Upon the granite base, raised in high relief, is the word

ARTHUR

and sunken into the face of this base is a tablet of bronze, with the inscription :

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At the foot of the sarcophagus stands a bronze figure in heroic size, representing Sorrow. It stands with folded wings leaning against the sarcophagus, one wing being thrown outward by the pressure in the most animated manner. The right arm of the figure hangs listlessly downward,

touching one of the bronze wings; the left arm is extended along the top of the sarcophagus in the act of laying a palm leaf on the tomb; the palm is of bronze extending lengthwise and falling gracefully over the northern end. The figure is six feet and a half high. The monument was designed by Mr. E. Keyser of New York, and cost $11,000; the amount defrayed by personal friends of Mr. Arthur. Dedicated June 15, 1889.

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Near by is a white marble sarcophagus, marked in old English letters with the words: :

Here lies the body of

ELLEN LEWIS HERNDON

Wife of Chester A. Arthur
Born at Culpeper, C.H., Virginia
August 30, 1837

Died at New York
January 12, A.D. 1880

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

The monument stands in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Harrison was buried March 17, 1901.

His first wife is buried in the

same plot, the name CAROLINE SCOTT HARRISON appearing on a headstone that marks her grave.

The tomb of Mr. Harrison is five feet deep, incased in granite four inches thick, and covered

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WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

Remains temporarily placed in the receiving vault of the West Lawn Cemetery at Canton, Ohio, September 19, 1901.

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The Alaskan Boundary Commission, composed of three Americans and three British members (two of the latter from Canada), held first session September 3, 1903, at London, England.

Decision reached October 17, 1903.

against).

Vote 4 to 2 (Canadians voting

The American claim was recognized, with one exception, i.e. the international boundary line when it reaches Portland Canal shall pass through its centre, and thence to the north of Pearse and Wales islands, between Wales and Sitkan islands, and thence south of Kannaghunut Island. The two latter-named islands have an area of eight square miles.

PAGE 28. Philippine Islands.

The "three-mile limit" of the northern shore of Borneo was established under a Protocol between Great Britain, Germany, and Spain, respecting the sovereignty of Spain over the Sulu Archipelago, and signed in Madrid, March 7, 1885.

III. Le Gouvernement Espagnol renonce vis-à-vis du Gouvernement Britannique, à toute prétention de Souveraineté sur les territoires du continent de Borneo qui appartiennent, ou qui ont appartenu dans le passé, au Sultan de Sulu (Joló) y Comprises les îles voisines de Balambangan, Banguey, et Malawali, ainsi que toute celles comprises dans une zone de lieues maritimes le long des côtes, et qui font partie des territoires administrés par la Compagnie dite "British North Borneo Company."

[TRANSLATION. The Spanish Government renounces in favor of the British Government all pretensions of sovereignty over all territories of Borneo's continent which belong or did belong in the past to the Sultan of Sulu (Joló), including the neighboring islands of Balambangan, Banguey, and Malawali, as well as all islands included in a zone of marine leagues alongside of the seashore, and which are a part of the territories managed by the said Company, "British North Borneo."]

Under the above treaty, the Spanish-United States treaty of 1898, and the United States-Spanish treaty of 1900, the United States is clearly vested with sovereignty over ". . . all those islands," formerly belonging to Spain, not "comprised within a zone of three marine leagues along the coasts and which form part of the territories administered by the Company called the British North Borneo Company." Under these instruments the possessions of the United States start about one hundred nautical miles south of Sibuto or San Lucia Bay, where the SpanishDutch boundary makes the mainland and separates British North Borneo from Dutch (south) Borneo.

Under a strict construction of the "three marine leagues" stipulation, the British North Borneo and United States line begins at Mount

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