366 PUBLIC TREATIES. Anirromr XXXL Lumbgr goam The Government of Her Britannia Majesty further engages to urge down the st.Jebn upon the Parliament of the Dominion ot Canada and the Legislature of Ri"°'· New Brunswick, that no export duty, or other duty, shall be levied on lumber or timber of any kind out on that portion of the American territory in the State of Maine watered by the river St. John and its tributaries, and lloated down that river to the sea, when the same is shipped to the United States from the province of New Brunswick. And, in case any such export or other duty continues to be levied after the expiration of one year from the date of the exchange of the rat1tications of this treaty, it is agreed that the Government of the United States may suspend the right of carrying hereinbefore granted under Article XXX of thi treaty for such period as such export or other duty may be levied. Amucnn XXXH. Provisions our- It is further agreed that the provisions and stipulations of Articles tides XVIII tv XVIII to XXV of this treaty, inclusive, shall extend to the colony of §X‘;."° mad *° Newfoundland, so tar as they are applicable. But if the Imperial Par- °W °°°liament, the Legislature of Newfoundland, or the Congress of the United States, shall not embrace the colony of Newfoundland in their laws enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, then this article shall be of no effect; but the omissionto make provision by law to give it eifect, by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other articles of this treaty. ARTICLE XXXIII. Articles XVIII The foregoing Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, and Article XXX §>}gV;¤d£:¤t;£¤ of this treaty, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry cmd"' °“ ° them into operation shall have been passed by the lmperial Parliament [sw protocol of ot Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature _;,,,,,,y,1By3,p_3q2_] of Prince Edward’s Island on the one hand, and by the Congress of the H,,,,],,,,!,,,,,,,,,,- United States on the other. Such assent having been given, the said tinus. articles shall remain in force for the period of ten years from the date at which they may come into operation; and further .until the expiration of two years after either of the high contracting parties hall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said period of ten years or at any time afterward. Aarrona XXXIV. Boumlalryfl i rio _ Whereas it is stipulated by Article I of the treaty concluded at Wash-
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[See sél _ also Britannic Magesty, that the line of boundary between the territories of pwmc0’f‘0,- jmck the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point m, ;g13,p_3w,] on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude up to which it had alreadv been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said 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 Pacific Ocean ;” and whereas the Commissioners appointed by the two high contracting parties to determine that portion of the boundary which runs southerly through the middle of the channel aforesaid, were unable to agree upon the same; and whereas the Government of Her Britanuie Majesty claims that such boundary line should, under the terms of the treaty above melted, be run through the Rosario Straits, and the Government of the United States claims that it should be run through the Canal de Haro, it is agreed that the respective claims of the Government of the
