Viscount Palmerston to Mr. Fox

Sir, I now transmit to you the draft of a convention which Her Majesty's government wish to submit to the government of the United States, for the purpose of appointing two commissions, the one to explore and survey the boundary between the British provinces of New Brunswick and Canada and the United States, and to determine and lay down that boundary in conformity with the Treaty of 1783, the other to act as arbitrator on matters with respect to which the first commission may be unable to come to a decision