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6 referred as therein provided, to friendly Sovereign or State who shall be invited to investigate and make a decision upon such points of difference." The King of the Netherlands was agreed upon, as the Sovereign to whom such points of difference should be referred. By the reports of the Commissioners made to their respective Governments, and the statements afterwards agreed to be submitted for them, it appears that the only points of difference so far as this State is concerned, arose upon the question which were the highlands described in the treaty of 1783, where the northwest angle of Nova Scotia is to be found. The British claimed as those highlands, the lands which divide the branches of the river St John from those of the Penobscot, including Mars Hill; and the United States contended that the highlands were northward of the river St John, bounding the sources of the rivers that fall into the St. Lawrence and dividing them from the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean. These were the points of difference submitted to the arbiter, and which he was invited to investigate and decide. His delegated power extended no farther. When therefore, without pretending to decide either of these points he undertakes to mark out a new boundary for the United States, and instead of following the highlands described in the treaty, declares his opinion that a portion of the river St John, and the river St Francis, are suitable boundaries between the two governments, he evidently transcends the limits of his authority, and his award cannot justly be considered as binding upon the parties interested. The acceptance or rejection of the award is now pending before the Senate of the United States; and we cannot but confidently expect, that the extraordinary advice and opinion of the arbiter will be considered by the General Government as an unauthorized assumption of power; and that said direction will be given to the subject as will comport with the rights and interest of this State, and with the honor and dignity of the United States. At the last session of the legislature, resolutions were adopted