Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that I, JAMES K. POLK President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight [SEAL.] hundred and forty-six; and of the Independence of the United States, the seventy-first.

By the President:

JAMES K. POLK.

JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State.

TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN OF LIMITS WESTWARD OF 1846. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

CONCLUDED JUNE 15th, 1846.

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

ded 15 June

Whereas, a Treaty between the United States of America and Treaty with G. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, concluBritain and Ireland was concluded and signed by their plen- 1846. ipotentiaries at Washington on the fifteenth day of June last, which treaty is, word for word, as follows:

The United States of America and her Majesty the Queen Preamble. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, deeming it to be desirable for the future welfare of both countries that the state of doubt and uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed respecting the sovereignty and government of the territory on the northwest coast of America, lying westward of the Rocky or Stony mountains, should be finally terminated by an amicable compromise of the rights mutually asserted by the two parties over the said territory, have respectively named plenipotentiaries to treat and agree concerning the terms of such settlement that is to say: the President of the United States of Negotiators. America has, on his part, furnished with full powers James Buchanan, Secretary of State of the United States, and her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has, on her part, appointed the Right Honorable Richard Pakenham, a member of her Majesty's most honorable privy council, and her Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

and British pos

tains.

From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, Boundary line where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conven. between U. S. tions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, sessions west of the line of boundary between the territories of the United States Rocky Moun and those of her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth 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's straits to the Pacific Ocean: Pro

the channel be

Navigation of vided, however, That the navigation of the whole of the said tween Vancou-channel and straits south of the forty-ninth parallel of north ver's Island and latitude remain free and open to both parties.

the continent, and of Fuca straits, to be free

and open to both parties. Navigation of

part of Colum

ARTICLE II.

From the point at which the forty-ninth parallel of north bia river to be latitude shall be found to intersect the great northern branch of free and open to the Columbia river, the navigation of the said branch shall be Hudson Bay Co. and British free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said with them, &c. branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream to the ocean, with free access into and through the said river or rivers, it being understood that all the usual portages along the line thus described shall in like manner be free and open. In navigating the said river or riv ers, British subjects, with their goods and produce, shall be Not to be con-treated on the same footing as citizens of the United States; it vent the U. s. being, however, always understood that nothing in this article from making re-shall be construed as preventing, or intended to prevent, the vigation of said Government of the United States from making any regulations respecting the navigation of the said river or rivers not inconsistent with the present treaty.

strued to pre

gulations for na.

river.

Possessory

ARTICLE III.

In the future appropriation of the territory south of the forB. company and ty-ninth parallel of north latitude, as provided in the first artiall British sub-cle of this treaty, the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay jects to be res- Company, and of all British subjects who may be already in pected. the occupation of land or other property lawfully acquired within the said territory, shall be respected.

get's Sound Ag

to be confirmed

ARTICLE IV.

Farms, &c. be. The farms, lands, and other property of every description longing to Pu belonging to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company on the ricultural Co. north side of the Columbia river, shall be confirmed to the said to them; but Company. In case, however, the situation of those farms and under certain lands should be considered by the United States to be of pubcircumstances_lic and political importance, and the United States Government ferred to the U. should signify a desire to obtain possession of the whole, or of S. at a proper any part thereof, the property so required shall be transferred valuation. to the said Government, at a proper valuation, to be agreed up

may be

Treaty to be

on between the parties.

ARTICLE V.

The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the ratified and ra- United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen changed Six ate thereof, and by her Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications

tifications ex.

shall be exchanged at London, at the expiration of six months months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

date.

from

Done at Washington the fifteenth day of June, in the year Signed 15 June, of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

JAMES BUCHANAN, [L. S.]

RICHARD PAKENHAM, [L. S.]

And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at London, on the seventeenth ultimo, by Louis McLane, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and Viscount Palmerston, her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the part of their respective Governments.

1816.

Ratifications exchanged 17th July, 1846.

President U. S.

Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN that I, JAMES K. POLK, Treaty proPresident of the United States of America, have caused the claimed by the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and Aug. 5, 1846. every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred [SEAL.] and forty six, and of the Independence of the United States, the seventy-first.

By the President:

JAMES K. POLK.

JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State.

21st

1845.

1846. CONVENTION WITH BAVARIA, FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DROIT D'AUBAINE AND TAXES ON EMIGRATION.

CONCLUDED JANUARY 21, 1845.

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Convention Whereas a convention between the United States of Amerwith Bavaria, ica and his Majesty the King of Bavaria was concluded and January, 'signed at Berlin by their respective plenipotentiaries, on the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five; which convention, being in the English and German languages, is, word for word, as follows:

Preamble.

Negotiators.