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348 ruisme ·rnnAr1Es. Sound Agricultural Companies, held at the city of Washington, on the 10th day of September, 1869- _ Present: Alexander S. Johnson, Commissioner on the part of the United States of America; Jolm Rose, Commissioner on the part of Her Britannic Majesty. The Commissioners having heard the allegations and proofs of the respective parties, and the arguments of their respective counsel, and duly considered the same, do determine and award that, as the adequate money consideration for the transfer to the United States of America of all the possessory rights and claims of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and of the Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company, under the [Su, Pp_ 346' 321.] iirst article of the treaty of July 1st, 1863, and the third and fourth articles of the treaty of June 15, 1846, commonly called the Oregon treaty, and in tull satisfaction of all such rights and claims, there ought to- be paid in gold coin by the United States of America, at the times and in [Sw P· 347-] the manner provided by the fourth article of the treaty of July 1, 1863, gn accountfof tlhe plossessory rights and claims of the Hudson’s Bay ompany, our un red and fifty thousand dollars- and on account of the possessory rights and claims of the Puget’s ,Sound Agricultural 1Co;npa;i,y, the spmdotf two hundred thousand dollars; and that at or c ore etime xe or the first payment to be made in ursuance of the treaty and of this award, each of the said companies dd) execute and deliver to the United States of America a sufficient deed or transfer and reltease to the United States of America, substantially in the form ereun o annexem . In testimony whereof we, the said commissioners, have set our hands totlhns award in duplicate, on the da-y and year and at the place aforesai . 4 _ ALEXANDER. S. JOHNSON, Ooonmumoner on the part of the United States. _ JOHN ROSE, Commissioner on the part of Har Britannia Majesty. GREAT BRITAIN, 1870. M 13 1870. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE .2*;.. BRITANNIC Mmm, mmt’i€‘t€”NE%t?€Ei¤2fTitt"“§t%tL"t§‘i£E6‘Et WASHINGTON MAY 13, 1870; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE JULY 8, 1870; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT JULY 19 1810- RATIFIOATIONS E §1BIj,I(ANGED AT LONDON AUGUST 10, 1870; PBOCLAIMED SEPTEMBER di; _c¤¤ti-mating par- The President of the United States of America d H M ' ms- Queen of the United Kingdom of GreatBritain and Irigland Blieingldzgirrdldg to regulate the citizenship of citizens of the United States of Ameri w who have emigrated or who may emigrate from the United States cit America to the British dominions, and of British sub'eets wh( l· 0

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