FOOTNOTES:
[230] See the report of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, October 6, 1763, given at pp. 116-18 of Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-91 (Shortt and Doughty).
[231] See State Papers, vol. i, Part II, p. 1369.
[232] Note.—The territory in dispute, however, seems partly to have been claimed by the United States as Federal Territory and not as belonging to Massachusetts. See the letter from Gallatin to Monroe, December 25, 1814. State Papers for 1821-2, vol. ix, p. 562.
[233] See State Papers, vol. i, Part II, p. 1603.
[234] See State Papers, vol. i, Part II, p. 1625.
[235] See the two Blue Books of July, 1840, as to the ‘North American Boundary’.
[236] The above account of the boundary disputes between Great Britain and the United States in the region of Maine and New Brunswick has been mainly taken from the very clear and exhaustive Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of the Province of New Brunswick, by William F. Ganay, M.A., Ph.D., 1901, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1901-2, and also published separately.
[237] It will be found in the State Papers for 1821-2, vol. ix, p. 791.
[238] The report will be found in the State Papers, 1866-7, vol. lvii, p. 803.
[239] This point is described in the report as ‘100 yards to the North and East of a small island named on the map Chapeau and lying opposite and near to the North-Eastern point of Isle-Royale’.
[240] State Papers, vol. i, Part I (1812-14), p. 784.
[241] State Papers, vol. vi, 1818-19, p. 3—also in Hertslet’s collection.
[242] As to the discovery of the Rocky Mountains, see vol. v, Part I of Historical Geography of the British Colonies, p. 214 and note.
[243] Correspondence relative to the negotiation of the question of the disputed right to the Oregon Territory on the North-West coast of America subsequent to the Treaty of Washington of August 9, 1842. Presented to Parliament in 1846, p. 39.
[244] A good account of the negotiations is in a Historical Note, 1818-46, included in a Blue Book of 1873, C.-692, North America, No. 5 (1873).
[245] The boundaries of British Columbia had been fixed by an Imperial Act of 1863.