Proceedings of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal: Convened at London, Under the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded at Washington, January 24, 1903, for the Settlement of Questions ... with Respect to the Boundary Line Between the Territory of Alaska and the British Possessions in North America, Volume 5, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - Alaska |
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51st degree 56th degree Alaska B. C. App bays and inlets body of water boundary line Britain British Atlas chain of mountains Chilkat Chilkat Inlet claim coast line coast of America contended continent convention Count Lieven Count Nesselrode crest degré degree of longitude degree of north establishments extend fifty-sixth degree Government head of Lynn head of Portland Hudson's Bay Company intended interior waters jurisdiction lease letter line drawn line of demarcation lisière Lynn Canal mainland coast marine leagues meant navigation negotiations north latitude northwest coast Observatory Inlet ocean parties Pearse Island Portland Canal Portland Channel possession Prince of Wales proposed reference Russian plenipotentiaries Russian-American Company says shore shows sinuosities Sir Charles Bagot sovereignty Stikine River Strait strip summit survey thence tion trade treaty of 1825 U. S. C. App U. S. C. C. App Ukase understanding understood United Vancouver Wales Island word coast word côte
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Page 94 - III. The line of demarcation between the possessions of the High Contracting Parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of America to the north-west...
Page 119 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Page 46 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers...
Page 47 - It is moreover agreed, that, hereafter, there shall not be formed by the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of said states, any establishment upon the northwest coast of America, nor in any of the islands adjacent, to the north of 54° 40...
Page 37 - ... shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Page 61 - Channel? 4. To what point on the 56th parallel is the line to be drawn from the head of the Portland Channel, and what course should it follow between these points? 5. In extending the line of demarcation northward from said point on the parallel of the 56th degree of North latitude, following the crest of the mountains situated parallel to the coast until its intersection with the 141st degree of longitude west of Greenwich, subject to the condition that if such line should anywhere exceed the distance...
Page 61 - 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 ten marine leagues from the coast, should the width of the lisiere...
Page 96 - The pursuits of commerce, whaling, and fishery, and of all other industry, on all Islands, Ports, and Gulfs, including the whole of the North-west Coast of America, beginning from...
Page 193 - Greenwich, by commissions to be appointed severally by the high contracting parties, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and .Russia and between the United States and Russia.
Page 47 - October, 1818, it was agreed that any country that might be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America...