Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 - United States |
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... . The commission did not pass on the question whether , in case the city had been burned by the order or permission of the com- manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have 50 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
... . The commission did not pass on the question whether , in case the city had been burned by the order or permission of the com- manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have 50 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
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United States. Department of State. manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have existed against the United States . The claim of Henry E. and Alfred Cox , No. 229 , was for a saw - mill and its motive - power ...
United States. Department of State. manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have existed against the United States . The claim of Henry E. and Alfred Cox , No. 229 , was for a saw - mill and its motive - power ...
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... loss sustained by the destruction of cotton belonging to the claimant by men who are described by the claimant as rebels in arms against the Government of the United States . The commissioners are of opinion that the United States ...
... loss sustained by the destruction of cotton belonging to the claimant by men who are described by the claimant as rebels in arms against the Government of the United States . The commissioners are of opinion that the United States ...
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... losses of Mr. O'Connor were solely in consequence of the failure of the United States to maintain and enforce their authority in the State of Virginia , and to suppress the civil and military disorders then existing there . A demurrer ...
... losses of Mr. O'Connor were solely in consequence of the failure of the United States to maintain and enforce their authority in the State of Virginia , and to suppress the civil and military disorders then existing there . A demurrer ...
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... loss of the property in question was caused by them , and there- fore was a legitimate subject of international reclamation before the commission . That , considering the prohibition in the light of a belligerent act , the United States ...
... loss of the property in question was caused by them , and there- fore was a legitimate subject of international reclamation before the commission . That , considering the prohibition in the light of a belligerent act , the United States ...
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Page 277 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 276 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.
Page 295 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 298 - Canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States, and further engages to urge upon the State Governments to secure to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals...
Page 277 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen islands and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.
Page 59 - President may, in his discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse with any such part of said State or section, the inhabitants of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and for such time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, may think most conducive to the public interest ; and such intercourse, so far as by him licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 230 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States...
Page 277 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 296 - States and of the islands aforesaid, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that in so doing they do not interfere with the rights of private property or with the fishermen of the United States, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 280 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...