TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 1842. 575 like manner, be deemed valid, and be confirmed and quieted by a release to the person entitled thereto, of the title to such lot or parcel of land, so described as best to include the improvements made thereon; and in all other respects the two contracting parties agree to deal upon the most liberal principles of equity with the settlers actually dwelling upon the territory falling to them, respectively, which has heretofore been in dispute between them. ARTICLE V. Whereas, in the course of the controversy respecting the disputed Distributionof territory on the Northeastern boundary, some moneys have been re- *l*°Y‘di¤P¤*°d,_ eeived by the authorities of Her Britannic Majesty’s province of New t°ml°ry fund' Brunswick, with the intention of preventing depredations on the forests of the said territory, which moneys were to be carried to a fund called the " disputed territory fund," the proceeds whereof, it was agreed, should be hereafter paid over to the parties interested, in the proportions to be determined by a final settlement of boundaries: It is hereby agreed, that a correct account of all receipts and payments on the said fund shall be delivered to the Government of the United States, within six months after the ratification of this treaty; and the proportion of the amount due thereon to the States of Maine and Massachusetts, and any bonds or securities appertaining thereto, shall be paid and delivered over to the Government of the United States; and the Government of the United States agrees to receive for the use ot, and pay over to, the States of Maine and Massachusetts, their respective portions of said fund; and further to pay and satisfy said States, respectively, for all claims for expenses incurred by them in protecting the said heretofore disputed territory, and making a survey thereof, in 1838; the Govern— ment of the United States agreeing, with the States of Maine and Massachusetts, to pay them the further sum of three hundred thousand dollars, in equal moieties, on account of their assent to the line of boundary described in this treaty, and in consideration of the conditions and equivalents received therefor, from the Government of Her Britannic Majesty. ARTICLE VI. It is furthermore understood and agreed, that for the purpose of run- r;.,,,,,.,,;,,,,,;,,,.,,,,,, ning and tracing those parts of the line between the source of the St. to be appointed Croix and the St. Lawrence river which will require to be run and as- j)° "““'k’h°lm° . . . . . etween the St. certamed, and for marking the residue of said line by proper monu· gmx and Sh ments on the land, two commissioners shall be appointed, one by the Lawrence President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of ""°"· the Senate thereof, and one by Her Britannic Majesty: and the said 1843,ch. 89. commissioners shall meet at Bangor, in the State of Maine, on the first day of May next, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall proceed to mark the line above described, from the source of the St. Croix to the river St. John; and shall trace, on proper maps, the dividing line along said river, and along the river St. Francis, to the outlet of the Lake Pohenagamook; and, from the outlet of the said lake, they shall ascertain, fix, and mark, by proper and durable monuments on the land, the line described in the first article of this treaty; and the said commissioners shall make to each of their respective Governments a joint report or declaration, under their hands and seals, designating such line of boundary, and shall accompany such report or declaration with maps, certified by them to be true maps of the new boundary. ARTICLE VII. It is further agreed, that the channels in the river St. Lawrence, on (g,,,,;,;,,,,,,,,,,,,, both sides of the Long Sault islands, and ofBarnhart island; the chan- open to both reels in the rivor Detroit, on both sides of the island Bois Blanc, and P"“°“·
