ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
DOCUMENT A
Article 3 of the Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, signed at London, October 20, 1818.
"It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers; it being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences among themselves."
DOCUMENT B
Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, signed at London, August 6, 1827.