GREAT BRITAIN, 1873. 369 at Washington; but whereas it has been found inconvenient in the summer season to hold those meetings in the city of Washington: In Negutintm. order to avoid such inconvenience, the President of the United States has invested Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, with full power, and Her Britannic Majesty has invested the Right Honourable Sir Edward Thornton, one of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, with hire power; who, having met and examined their respective pow- {·rs,_wh1ch were found to be in proper form, have agreed upon the folowing ADDITIONAL A.uT1oLE. It is agreed that the sessions of the commissioners provided for by S¤¤¤i<>\¤¤ ¤f *11* the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and Her °"“‘““°"°"°"· Britannia Majesty of the 8th of May, 1871, need not be restricted to the city of Washington, but may be held at such other place within the United States as the commission may prefer. The present additional article shall be ratified, and the ratitlcations Rmgumtiens. shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible thereafter. In witness whereof we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed Signatures. the same and have hereunto affixed our respective seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, the eighteenth day of D'*"°- January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sev~ enty-three. [san,.] HAMILTON FISH. [sm;..] EDWD. THORNTON. Pnorocot or A conrsnnucn AT wrsnuvorou, mrzcrr io, is-xs, nnsrnor- Mmb 10- 1873- ING THE NORTHWEST WATER-BOUNDARY. W Whereas it was provided by the first article of the treaty between the Pmtoccl. United States of America and Great Britain, signed at Washington on [see p.321.] the 15th of June, 1846, as follows: "ARTICLE I. “ From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude where Article I, treaty the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between ¤1' J¤¤¤ 15, 1846- the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver’s Island; and thence southerly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, to the Paciiic Ocean: Provided, however, That the navigation of the whole of the said channel and straits south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude remain free and open to both- parties." And whereas it was provided by the XXXIVth Article of the treaty [8,, ,,_ ;;66_] between the United States of America and Great Britain, signed at Washington on the Sth of May, 1871, as follows: "ARTICLE XXXIV.
it was stipulated by Article I of the treaty concluded at Article XXXIV,
Washington on the 15th of June, 1846, between the United State and §g'a";*Y °f M"? Sv Her Britannic Majesty, that the line of boundary between the terri· ' tories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the 49th parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates 1: s rv--—24
