§ SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government are taking steps to secure the final delimitation of the frontier between Canada and Alaska?
MR. CURZONThe question of the Alaska Boundary has been dealt with in two sections: namely (1) from Mount Elias northward to the Arctic Ocean, and (2) from Mount Elias southward along the strip of coast to the terminal point fixed by the Treaty with Russia of 1825. As regards the first section, a Convention was signed at Washington, on January 31st, 1897, for the location of certain points along the 141st meridian, which forms the boundary there, and providing for the junction of the points so located by joint surveys. This work is now in progress. As regards the second section, the Boundary Commission, acting under the Convention of July 22nd, 1892, presented a joint report 1053 on December 31st, 1895, but the maps attached to the report, on which the topographical results of the survey were embodied, have not yet been received, and up to the present no arrangement for the determination of the true boundary has been effected. The matter is now engaging the attention of Her Majesty's Government.