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ordinance had been issued, in con. sequence of which all vessels coming from that country should be considered as suspected, and consequently subject to quarantine.

ARTICLE XVII.

The second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeeth, eigh. teenth, nineteenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth articles of the treaty of amity and commerce concluded at Paris on the third of April, one thousand seven hundred eightythree, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, and of his majesty the king of Sweden, together with the first, second, fourth, and fifth separate articles, signed on the same day by the same plenipotentiaries, are revived, and made applicable to all the countries under the dominion of the present high contracting par. ties, and shall have the same force and value as if they were inserted in the context of the present treaty. It being understood that the stipulations contained in the arti. cles above cited, shall always be considered, as in no manner affect ing the conventions concluded by either party with other nations, during the interval between the expiration of the said treaty of one thousand seven hundred eightythree, and the revival of said articles by the treaty of commerce and navigation, concluded at Stockholm by the present high contracting parties, on the fourth of September, one thousand eight hun. dred and sixteen.

ARTICLE XVIII.

Considering the remoteness of the respective countries of the two high contracting parties, and the

uncertainty resulting therefrom with respect to the various events which may take place, it is agreed that a merchant vessel belonging to either of them, which may be bound to a port supposed, at the time of its departure, to be blockaded, shall not, however, be captured or condemned for having attempted, a first time, to enter said port, unless it can be proved that said vessel could, and ought to have learned, during its voyage, that the blockade of the place in question still continued. But all vessels which, after having been warned off once, shall, during the same voyage, attempt a second time to enter the same blockaded port, during the continuance of said blockade, shall then subject themselves to be detained and condemned.

ARTICLE XIX.

The present treaty shall continue in force ten years, counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and if, before the expiration of the first nine years, neither of the high contracting parties shall have announced, by an official notification, to the other, its intention to arrest the operation of said treaty, it shall remain bind. ing for one year beyond that time, and so on, until the expiration of the twelve months which will follow a similar notification, whatever the time at which it may take place.

ARTICLE XX.

The present treaty shall be ratified by the president of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and by his majesty the king of Sweden and Norway, and the rati. fications shall be exchanged at Washington within the space of

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of importation from Sweden and Norway.

The present separate article shall have the same force and value as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In faith whereof, we, the under.

signed, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present separate article, and affixed thereto the seals of our arms.

Done at Stockholm, the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

J. J. APPLEton.

G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT.

Certain relations of proximity and ancient connexions having led to regulations for the importation of the products of the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway into the Grand Duchy of Finland, and that of the products of Finland into Sweden and Norway, in vessels of the respective countries, by spe-ged cial stipulations of a treaty still in

force, and whose renewal forms at this time the subject of a ne. gotiation between the courts of Sweden and Norway and Russia, said stipulations being, in no manner, connected with the

existing regulations for foreign commerce in general, the two high contracting parties, anxious to remove from their commercial relations all kinds of ambiguity or motives of discussion, have agreed that the eighth, ninth, and tenth articles of the present treaty shall not be applicable either to the navigation and commerce above mentioned, nor consequently to the exceptions in the general tariff of custom-house duties, and in the regulations of navigation resulting therefrom, nor to the special advantages which are, or may be granted to the importation of tallow and candles from Russia, founded upon equivalent advantages granted by Russia on certain articles

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The said treaty and separate article have been duly ratified on fications of the same were exchanboth parts, and the respective ratiged at Washington, on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twentyof State of the United States, and eight, by Henry Clay, Secretary Robert, Baron de Stackelberg, Colonel, Knight of the order of the sword, and Chargé d'Affaires of his majesty, the king of Sweden and Norway, near the said United States, on the part of their respective governments.

A Convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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 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 Ire. land, 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 Britannic Majesty; and his said Majesty, on his part, has appointed the Right Honoura. ble CHARLES GRANT, a Member of Parliament, a Member of His said Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and President of the Com. mittee of the Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations; and HENRY UDWIN ADDING TON, Esq., who, after having exchanged their respective full pow. ers, 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 British dominions, as described in the fifth article of the 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 deci. sion, if practicable, within two years after the arbiter shall have signi. fied his consent to act as such.

ARTICLE II.

The reports and documents thereunto annexed, of the commission. ers appointed to carry into execution the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, being so voluminous and complicated as 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 Britannie 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 af ter 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 the other, in the same manner as aforesaid, all the evidence 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 fifth article ofthe 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 authentic copies of such individually specified acts, of a public 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 topographi cal 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 there. unto annexed, and other written documents, laid before the Commission under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, or of the other evidence mutually communicated or applied for, as above provided, which it may think fit.

ARTICLE I.

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 fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, any engraved map heretofore published, and also a transcript of the abovementioned 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 state. ment, either in the margin of such transcript, map or maps, or other wise.

ARTICLE V.

All the statements, papers, maps, and documents, abovementioned, 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 arbitrating sovereign or state, within two years after the exchange of ratifications of this convention, unless the arbiter should not, within that time, have consented to act as such; in which case, all the said statements, papers, maps, and documents, shall be laid before him within six months after the time when he shall have consented so to act. No other statements, papers, maps, or documents, shall ever be laid before the arbiter, except as hereinafter provided.

ARTICLE VI.

In order to facilitate the attainment of a just and sound decision on the part of the arbiter, it is agreed, that in case the said arbiter should desire further elucidation or evidence, in regard to any specific point contained in any of the said statements submitted to him, the requisition for such elucidation or evidence shall be simultaneously made to both parties, who shall thereupon be permitted to bring further evidence, if required, and to make, each, a written reply to the specific questions submitted by the said arbiter, but no further; and such evidence and replies shall be

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