Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Settlement Of The Boundary Line Between The United States And Great Britain Cayuse War Murder Of Dr. Whitman Meek's Trip To Washington—Congress Passes Act Organizing Oregon Territory Joseph Lane Appointed Governor Jo- Seph Meek Appointed U. S. Marshal Arrival At Oregon City. Early in the year 1846, a treaty was made between Great Britain and the United States. This treaty gave to the United States all land south and west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast, between the 42nd and the 49th parallels, except the holdings of the Hudson Bay Company and the holdings of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, with an agreement that the United States might purchase these holdings in the future if they desired. This treaty was concluded at Washington, D. C., June 15, 1846, was ratified by the Senate June 18, 1846, approved by the President June 19, 1846, and proclaimed August 5, 1846. (See Revised Statutes of the United States, pages 320, 321 and 322, Articles I, II, III and IV.) July 1, 1863, a treaty of agreement was made by the United States with Great Britain to purchase the Hudson Bay Company's and the Puget Sound Agricultural Company's land holdings, at a valuation to be fixed by the commissioners. This, however, was not done until September 10, 1863. (See pages 346, 347 and 348, Revised Treaties of the United States.) The value of the Hudson Bay Company's property was fixed at four hundred and fifty thousand dollars gold coin, and the holdings of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company's at two hundred thousand dollars. One-half of these amounts was to be paid in one year, and the remainder to be paid in two years from the date of the award. So it was some time before all British claims were extinguished in the Northwestern Territory. The old Hudson Bay fort at Vancou...