Article the Seventh
It is further agreed that the said two last mentioned Commissioners
after they shall have executed the duties assigned to them in the
preceding Article, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized upon
their oaths impartially to fix and determine according to the true
intent of the said Treaty of Peace of one thousand seven hundred and
eighty three, that part of the boundary between the dominions of the
two Powers, which extends from the water communication between Lake
Huron and Lake Superior to the most North Western point of the Lake of
the Woods;-to decide to which of the two Parties the several Islands
lying in the Lakes, water communications, and Rivers forming the said
boundary do respectively belong in conformity with the true intent of
the said Treaty of Peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty
three, and to cause such parts of the said boundary as require it to
be surveyed and marked. The said Commissioners shall by a Report or
declaration under their hands and seals, designate the boundary
aforesaid, state their decision on the points thus referred to them,
and particularize the Latitude and Longitude of the most North Western
point of the Lake of the Woods, and of such other parts of the said
boundary as they may deem proper. And both parties agree to consider
such designation and decision as final and conclusive. And in the
event of the said two Commissioners differing, or both or either of
them refusing, declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports,
declarations or statements shall be made by them or either of them,
and such reference to a friendly Sovereign or State shall be made in
all respects as in the latter part of the fourth Article is contained,
and in as full a manner as if the same was herein revealed.
