ttlement of the
questions growing out of the fisheries, and for various arrangements
affecting commerce and intercourse between the United States and the
British North American possessions. Some of its provisions were made
terminable by methods pointed out in the treaty. Articles I to XVII,
inclusive, provide for the settlement of the Alabama claims and of the
claims of British subjects against the United States, and have been
fully executed. Articles XVIII to XXV, inclusive, relate to the subject
of the fisheries, and provide for a joint commission to determine what
indemnity should be paid to Great Britain for the fishing privileges
conceded. These articles have been terminated by the notice provided
for in the treaty.

Article XXVI provides for the free navigation of the St. Lawrence,
Yukon, Porcupine, and Stikine rivers. Article XXVII provides for the
equal use of certain frontier canals and waterways, and contains no
provision for termination upon notice. Article XXVIII opens Lake
Michigan to the commerce of British subjects under proper regulations,
and contains a provision for its abrogation, to which reference will
presently be made. Article XXX provides for certain privileges of
transshipment on the Lakes and northern waterways, and contains the
same provision as Article XXIX as to the method by which it may be
terminated. Article XXXI provides for the nonimposition of a Canadian
export duty on lumber cut in certain districts in Maine and floated
to the sea by the St. Johns River, and contains no limitation as to
time and no provision for its abrogation. Article XXXII extended to
Newfoundland in the event of proper legislation by that Province the
fishery provisions of Articles XVIII to XXV, and was of course abrogated
with those articles. Article XXXIII, which provides a method for the
abrogation of certain articles of the treaty, I will presently quote
at length. The remaining articles of the treaty, namely XXXV to XLII,
provide for the arbitration of the dispute as to the Vancouver Island
and De Haro Channel boundary, and have been fully executed. Articles
XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXVIII, XXIX, and XXX each contains a provision
limiting their life to "the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of
this treaty." The articles between XVIII and XXX, inclusive, which do
not contain this provision, are those that provide for an arbitration of
the fishery question, which were of course terminable by the completion
of t