separating the British possessions from the bays, ports, inlets, havens, and waters of the ocean, and extending from the said point on the 56th degree of latitude north to a point where such line of demarcation should intersect the 141st degree of longitude west of the meridian of Greenwich?

6. If the foregoing question should be answered in the negative, and in the event of the summit of such mountains proving to be in places more than 10 marine leagues from the coast, should the width of the lisière which was to belong to Russia, be measured (1) from the mainland coast of the ocean, strictly so-called, along a line perpendicular thereto, or (2) was it the intention and meaning of the said Convention that where the mainland coast is indented by deep inlets forming part of the territorial waters of Russia, the width of the lisière was to be measured (a) from the line of the general direction of the mainland coast, or (b) from the line separating the waters of the ocean from the territorial waters of Russia, or (c) from the heads of the aforesaid inlets?

7. What, if any exist, are the mountains referred to as situated parallel to the coast, which mountains, when within 10 marine leagues from the coast, are declared to form the eastern boundary?

And whereas His Britannic Majesty duly appointed Richard Everard, Baron Alverstone, G.C.M.G., Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Louis Amable. Jetté, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, and Allen Bristol Aylesworth, one of His Majesty's Counsel; and the President of the United States of America duly appointed the Honourable Elihu Root, Secretary of War of the United States, the Honourable Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts, and the Honourable George Turner, of the State of Washington, to be members of the said Tribunal :

Now, therefore, we, the Undersigned, having each of us first subscribed an oath, as provided by the said Convention, and having taken into consideration the matters directed by the said Convention to be considered by us, and having judicially considered the said questions submitted to us, do hereby make answer and award as follows:

In answer to the 1st question

The Tribunal unanimously agrees that the point of commencement of the line is Cape Muzon.

In answer to the 2nd question

The Tribunal unanimously agrees that the Portland Channel

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is the channel which runs from about 55° 56′ north latitude, and passes to the north of Pearse and Wales Islands.

A majority of the tribunal, that is to say, Lord Alverstone, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Turner, decides that the Portland Channel, after passing to the north of Wales Island, is the channel between Wales Island and Sitklan Island, called Tongass Channel. The Portland Channel above mentioned is marked throughout its length by a dotted red line from the point B to the point marked C on the map* signed in duplicate by the Members of the Tribunal at the time of signing their decision.

In answer to the 3rd question

A majority of the tribunal, that is to say, Lord Alverstone, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Turner, decides that the course of the line from the point of commencement to the entrance to Portland Channel is the line marked A B in red on the aforesaid map.

In answer to the 4th question

A majority of the Tribunal, that is to say, Lord Alverstone, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Turner, decides that the point to which the line is to be drawn from the head of the Portland Channel is the point on the 56th parallel of latitude marked D on the aforesaid map, and the course which the line should follow is drawn from C to D on the aforesaid map.

In answer to the 5th question

A majority of the Tribunal, that is to say, Lord Alverstone, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Turner, decides that the answer to the above question is in the affirmative.

Question 5 having been answered in the affirmative, question 6 requires no answer.

In answer to the 7th question

A majority of the Tribunal, that is to say, Lord Alverstone, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Turner, decides that the mountains marked S on the aforesaid map are the mountains referred to as situated parallel to the coast on that part of the coast where such mountains marked S are situated, and that between the points marked P (mountain marked S, 8,000) on the north, and the point marked T† (mountain marked S, 7,950), in the absence of further survey, the evidence is not sufficient to enable the Tribunal to say which are the

* A reduced map was laid before Parliament in United States, No. 2 of 1904.

+ See Exchange of Notes, March 25, 1905, page 1187.

mountains parallel to the coast within the meaning of the Treaty.

In witness whereof we have signed the above-written decision upon the question submitted to us. Signed in duplicate this 20th day of October, 1903.

ALVERSTONE.

ELIHU ROOT.

HENRY CABOT Lodge.
GEORGE TURNER.

Witness:

REGINALD TOWER,

Secretary.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and the United States of America recording the acceptance of the Report of the Commissioners to complete the Award of October 20, 1903, respecting the Boundary between the Dominion of Canada and the Territory of Alaska. Washington, March 25, 1905.

No. 187.

No. 1.—Mr. Adee to Sir H. M. Durand.

EXCELLENCY,

Department of State, Washington, March 25, 1905. REFERRING to your note of October 1st, and Mr. Hay's reply of December 2nd, 1904, in regard to the report by Messrs. O. H. Tittmann and W. F. King, the Commissioners appointed to carry out the delimitation of the Alaska boundary so far as it was left undefined by the Award* of the London Tribunal, and concerning the character of our agreement between the United States and Great Britain for the formal acceptance of the recommendations of the Commissioners. by an Exchange of Notes, I have the honour to state, by direction of the President, that the Government of the United

*See page 1183.

States agrees with the Government of His Britannic Majesty that the part of the boundary between Alaska and Canada lying between the points P and T mentioned in the award of the Tribunal of 1903, shall be defined, in accordance with the general principles laid down by said Tribunal, by the summits whose geographical coordinates are given with sufficient approximation for identification in the attached Table, provided that the Commissioners are hereby empowered, after they have secured sufficient data, to select additional and intermediate peaks between the points 7 and 8 and 8 and T where the distances between the peaks given in the Table exceed the probable limit of intervisibility. Provided also that no such additional and intermediate peak shall be more than 2,500 metres from the straight line joining peaks 7 and 8 or 8 and T of the attached Table, as follows:

Table showing the positions and distances of peaks.

The latitudes and longitudes are taken from, and refer to, the Maps numbers 10 and 12 of the surveys made by the British Commission under the Convention of 1892. The successive peaks are designated by consecutive numbers, counting southward from Point P.

Your acknowledgment of this communication, with a similar statement on behalf of the Government of His Majesty will complete the agreed Exchange of Notes and will confirm and give validity to the agreement reached by the Commissioners, thus completing the award of the London Tribunal

under the Convention of January 24, 1903, as to the abovedescribed part of the Alaska boundary.

Expressing the President's satisfaction at this settlement of the matter I have, &c.

ALVEY A. ADEE.

Acting Secretary of State.

SIR,

No. 2.-Sir H. M. Durand to Mr. Hay.

British Embassy,

Washington, March 25th, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 187, of this date, in regard to the report by Messrs. W. F. King and O. H. Tittmann, the Commissioners appointed. to carry out the delimitation of the Alaska Boundary so far as it was left undefined by the Award of the London Tribunal, and concerning the character of an agreement between Great Britain and the United States for the formal acceptance of the recommendations of the Commissioners by an Exchange of Notes.

By direction and on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty, I have the honour to state that the Government of His Majesty agrees with the Government of the United States that the part of the boundary between Canada and Alaska lying between the points P and T mentioned in the award of the Tribunal of 1903, shall be defined, in accordance with the general principles laid down by said Tribunal, by the summits whose geographical coordinates are given with sufficient approximation for identification in the attached Table, provided that the Commissioners are hereby empowered, after they have secured sufficient data, to select additional and intermediate peaks between the points 7 and 8 and 8 and T where the distances between the peaks given in the Table exceed the probable limit of intervisibility. Provided also that no such additional and intermediate peak shall be more than 2,500 metres from the straight line joining peaks 7 and 8 or 8 and T of the attached Table, as follows:

Table showing the positions and distances of peaks.

The latitudes and longitudes are taken from, and refer to, the Maps numbers 10 and 12 of the surveys made by the