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government ceased to exercise jurisdiction over any part of the territory since disputed, and for nearly twenty years afterwards, and until the line at Mars Hill was claimed as the Boundary, it was not resumed. And it is probate that no serious difficulty would ever have arisen in setting this boundary with the "British Government, if that unfortunate provision had not been made in the treaty of Ghent, which provides for submitting the question to an arbiter.