WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of August 9, 1950, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said treaty with the following reservation:

"The United States on its part expressly reserves the right to provide by Act of Congress for redevelopment, for the public use and benefit, of the United States' share of the waters of the Niagara River made available by the provisions of the Treaty, and no project for redevelopment of the United States' share of such waters shall be undertaken until it be specifically authorized by Act of Congress.";

WHEREAS the text of the aforesaid reservation was communicated by the Government of the United States of America to the Government of Canada and thereafter the Government of Canada gave notice of its acceptance of the aforesaid reservation;

WHEREAS the said treaty was ratified by the President of the United States of America on August 24, 1950, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate and subject to the aforesaid reservation, and was duly ratified also on the part of Canada on October 5, 1950;

WHEREAS the respective instruments of ratification of the said treaty were duly exchanged at Ottawa on October 10, 1950, and a protocol of exchange of instruments of ratification was signed on that date by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and Canada recording the acceptance by the Government of Canada of the aforesaid reservation;

AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article X of the said treaty that the treaty shall come into force on the date of the exchange of ratifications;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public, the said treaty between the United States of America and Canada concerning uses of the waters of the Niagara River, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, subject to the reservation hereinbefore recited, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred fifty and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-fifth. HARRY STRUMAN

By the President:

DEAN ACHESON

Secretary of State

TREATY SERIES, No. 548

BOUNDARY WATERS AND QUESTIONS ARISING ALONG THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA

TREATY

BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN

Signed at Washington, January 11, 1909.

Ratification advised by the Senate of the United States, with understanding, March 3, 1909.

Ratified by the President of the United States, April 1, 1910.

Ratified by Great Britain, March 31, 1910.

Ratifications exchanged at Washington, May 5, 1910.

Proclaimed by the President of the United States, May 13, 1910.

The official citation for this treaty
is 36 Stat. (Part 2) 2448

[Reprinted April 1953 ]

Paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 of Article V, page 3, terminated October 10,1950, upon entry into force on that date of the treaty concerning the uses of the waters of the Niagara River signed at Washington February 27,1950 (TIAS 2130; 1 UST 694).

BY THE PRESIDENT OF The United STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS & Treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington on the eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the original of which Treaty is word for word as follows:

The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of bundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise, have resolved to conclude a treaty in furtherance of these ends, and for that purpose have appointed as their respective plenipotentiaries:

The President of the United States of America, Elihu Root, Secretary of State of the United States; and

His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable James Bryce, O.M., his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington; Who, after having communicated to one another their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

PRELIMINARY ARTICLE.

For the purposes of this treaty boundary waters are defined as the waters from main shore to main shore of the lakes and rivers and connecting waterways, or the portions thereof, along which the international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada passes, including all bays, arms, and inlets thereof, but not including tributary waters which in their natural channels would