dBooks desire

Appropriate representations
on our part resulted in the British Government agreeing to purchase
outright all such goods shown to be the actual property of American
citizens, thus closing the incident to the satisfaction of the
immediately interested parties, although, unfortunately, without a broad
settlement of the question of a neutral's right to send goods not
contraband _per se_ to a neutral port adjacent to a belligerent
area.
The work of marking certain provisional boundary points, for convenience
of administration, around the head of Lynn Canal, in accordance with the
temporary arrangement of October, 1899, was completed by a joint survey
in July last. The _modus vivendi_ has so far worked without
friction, and the Dominion Government has provided rules and regulations
for securing to our citizens the benefit of the reciprocal stipulation
that the citizens or subjects of either power found by that arrangement
within the temporary jurisdiction of the other shall suffer no
diminution of the rights and privileges they have hitherto enjoyed.


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