nnebec road.
On the maps of the British commission representing the "west line" the
name of the town of "_Derby_" has been improperly placed north of the
line instead of south of it. Also, on the same maps the direction of
Salmon River, near the western extremity of the "west line," has been
incorrectly laid down from the boundary line northward. A direction has
been given to it northeasterly instead of northwesterly.
The above two corrections the British commissioner is authorized to make
on his maps after his return to England.
To avoid unnecessary delay in making their joint report, the undersigned
have attached their signatures to the maps, although the lettering
of some of the astronomical stations upon the maps of the American
commission, as well as the alterations before mentioned in the maps of
the British commission, are yet to be made; but in the maps of both the
boundary has been laid down accurately and definitively, and the
undersigned engage that it shall not be altered in any respect.
In conclusion the undersigned have the honor to report that the line of
boundary described in the foregoing statement has been run, marked, and
surveyed, and the accompanying maps faithfully constructed from that
survey.
The undersigned take leave to add that the most perfect harmony has
subsisted between the two commissions from first to last, and that no
differences have arisen between the undersigned in the execution of the
duties intrusted to them.
Signed and sealed in duplicate, at the city of Washington, this 28th day
of June, A.D. 1847.
J.B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, [SEAL.]
_Lieutenant-Colonel, Her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner_.
ALBERT SMITH, [SEAL.]
_United States Commissioner_.
NOTE.--The astronomical computations of the American commission not
being completed, and it being unnecessary to defer the signing of the
report on that account, the American commissioner engages to transmit
them, with any other papers or tables not yet finished, as soon as they
shall be so, to the British commissioner, through the American minister
resident in London, to whom, upon delivery of the documents, the British
commissioner will give a receipt, to be transmitted to the American
commissioner.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
_Lieutenant-Colonel, H.B.M. Commissioner of Boundary_.
ALBERT SMITH,
_United States Commissioner_.
WASHINGTON, _August 18, 1842_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
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