BOUNDARY CONVENTION-—GREAT BRITAIN. Aranl 11, 1908. 2011 cated and repaired and additional monuments and boundar marks shall be established wherever necessary, in the judgment of the Commissioners, to meet the requirements of modern conditions and to render more effective the demarcation of the existent boimdary established under the treaty provisions and proceedings thereimder as aforesaid; and it is futher agreed that in carrying out these provisions the said Commissioners shall observe the a reement stated in the protocol of the final meeting, dated May 29, 18%6, of the Joint Commission aforesaid, which is as follows: . " 2. In the intervals between the monuments along the parallel of latitude, it is agreed that the line has the curvature of a parallel of 49° north latitude; and that such characteristic shall etermine all questions that may hereafter arise with reference to the position of the boundary at any point between neighboring monuments. _ " 3. It is further agreed that, in the event of any of the said three hundred and eighty-eight monuments or marks being obliterated beyond the power of recognition, the lost site or sites shall be recovered by) their recorded position relatively to the next neighboring uno literated mark or marks." It is further agreed that the said Commisioners shall mark upon Gbsmwbenled. uadruplicate sets of accurate modern charts repared or ado ted by tlhem for that purpose the entire course of saidlbonmda and the location of the boundary monuments and marks establilshed along the course of said boundary, and two duplicate originals thereof shall be filed with each Government, and said Commissioners shall also prepare in duplicate and iile- with each‘Govemment a joint report de- R¤P°¤¤· scribing in detail the work done by them in replacing and repairing lost or damaged monuments and the character and location of the severgl monuments and boundary marks placed by them along said boun ary. The line so laid down and donned shall be taken and deemed to be b°g:;J¤ggn;*•>¤ ci the international boundary as defined and established by treaty pro- W ` visions and the proceedings thereunder as aforesaid from the northwestermnost point of the Lake of the `Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mormtains. ARTICLE VII. The boundary from the summit of the Rocky Jllonntains to the
- Gulf of Georgia.
Whereas, by concurrent action of the Government of the United m{{¤g?¢IggcY{m=gI$; States and the Government of Great Britain in 1902 and 1903, Com- am to euuhr emmissioners were designated to act jointly for the purpose of renew- g"' ing lost or damaged monuments and placing additional monuments where such were needed throughout the course of the boundary alon the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, from the summit of the Becky Mountains westward to the eastern shore of the Gulf of Georgia, as defined in Article I of the Treaty of June 15, 1846, be- rumie rmues, p. tween the United States and Great Britain and as marked by monu- m' ments along its course and laid down on a series of charts, seven in number, by a Joint Commission organized in 1858 for that purpose and composed of two Commissioners appointed one by each Government, which charts, duly certified and authenticated in duplicate by said Commissioners, were approved and adopted by the two Governments, as appears from the declaration in writing to that effect signed on February 24, 1870, at Washington by duly authorized Pleni tentiaries of the respective Governments, and it appearing that tlig remonumenting of this line by the Commissioners first above referred to is now approaching completion;
