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27 September
The Red River area and mainland Oregon Country are formally dropped from the British demands for the Treaty of Havana (in return for the recognition of the islands of Puget Sound as part of British Columbia), and the Union grudgingly admits to the sensibility of the 37th Parallel border up to the Great Divide (which the Confederacy accepts, also somewhat grudgingly as it means saying goodbye to prospects for Kansas and Missouri). The proposed State of Colorado (lower California) is still under debate.
The repeated riots in Maryland have also caused the Union negotiators to admit that there is no practicable way to keep the area of the state around Baltimore.

At this point, the following areas are disputed:
- Maine
- The precise dimensions of the St Lawrence Buffer
- Grand Island on the Niagara river
- Upper Michigan
- Delmarva
- Kentucky
- Northwest Virginia
- NW Maryland
- Southern California
- Who is paying an indemnity to whom

Progress feels distinctly slow.

Quietly, a Federal study is also instituted as to where the capital should be moved if it becomes necessary to move the capital.

29 September

The somewhat delayed coronation of Frederick III of Prussia takes place in Konigsberg. It is a grand affair, with much pageantry and not a little beer.
Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom attends, though she is clearly subdued - the loss of her beloved Albert is still recent, though she does not want to dismay her eldest daughter (now Queen Victoria of Prussia, with no regnal number).
HMS Princess Royal, selected from the ships of the line rotated out of the blockade of the Union, delivers a thunderous salute. She would have been accompanied by the Royal Frederick, but no ship by that name exists despite two having been laid down in an eight year period - one was renamed to Queen and the other to Frederick William. (Her Majesty the Queen suggests that such name be used for one of the new ironclad frigates.)

1 October
A bill passes the Confederate House and Senate without much examination. It contains language which "confirms that the State of Louisiana retains all rights, prerogatives and exemptions under the Confederate States as under their former association with the United States" - similar bills are being passed for other states, including (optimistically, perhaps?) Missouri and Delaware.
This was perhaps a bill the Confederacy would have preferred to scrutinize further, as one of the aforementioned exemptions (and one which was quashed early in the year but which this bill reinstates) is the opt-out of the "whites only" provision of the Militia Act.
This is almost immediately noticed by the free blacks of New Orleans, who resurrect the Louisiana Native Guard the next day.

3 October
Sustained debate begins about whether the Militia Act can be re-revised to remove the black volunteers a second time. This becomes tangled up with states' rights issues, and goes nowhere fast.