"ملف ٥/٢ VI المنطقة المُحايدة في الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٦‎١] (٧٠٢/٣٢١)

modern, even official or semi-official maps seem wanting
in accuracy". (Award as published by the International
Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration 1928, p.37).
(d) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in
the course of its Opinion, given in 1927, in the Canada -
Newfoundland Boundary Dispute said: "The maps here referred
to, even when issued or accepted by Departments of the
Canadian Government, cannot be treated as admissions
binding on that Government; for even if such an admission
would be effectively made, the departments conoemed are
not shown to have had any authority to make it."
(137 L.T.R. I 87 , 199). But the tribunal attached "some
value to the fact that throughout a long series of years
th® maps issued by Canada supported or v/ere consistent with
the claim now put forward by Newfoundland. (it may be
noted that the eight volumes of documents of this case as
printed in connection with the proceedings before the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council contain some material relevant
to the present case. So do the Proceedings in the Alaskan
Bo una-^ry Dispute in 1903 between Great Britain and the
United States as well as the Proceedings of the British-
American Commission under the Jay Treaty of 1794 which was
asked to pronounce on the question: "What river was truly
intended under the name of St.Croix mentioned in the Treaty
of Peace?". The proceedings of the Commission are printed
in Moore, International Adjudication s, vols. I and II (1929).
In.due course a more detailed examination of all these sources
will prove to be helpful.)
(e) In its Eighth Advisory Opinion, given in December
1923, on the question of the Polish—Czechoslovakian Prontie' -
the Permanent Court of International Justice remarked that:
it is true that maps and their tables of explanatory signs