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Excerpt from Treaties and Agreements Affecting Canada in Force Between His Majesty and the United States of America: With Subsidiary Documents, 1814-1913
In order, therefore, finally to decide upon these Claims it is agreed that they shall be referred to two Commissioners, to be appointed in the following mariner, viz: One Commissioner shall be appointed by His Britannic Majesty, and one by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and the said two Commissioners so appointed, shall be sworn impartially to examine and decide upon the said Claims according to such evidence as shall be laid before them on the part of His Britannic Majesty and of the United States respectively. The said Commissioners shall meet at St. Andrews, in the Province of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such other Place or Places as they shall think fit. The said Commissioners shall, by a Declaration or Report under their hands and seals, decide to which of the two Contracting Parties, the several Islands aforesaid do respectively belong, in con formity with the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of 17 83; and if the said Commissioners shall agree in their deci sion, both Parties shall consider such decision as final and con elusive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
