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... and Island Queen , and the property of American citizens on board said steamers ; four were for damages by reason of the al- leged detention of vessels laden with saltpetre at Calcutta , 8 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
... and Island Queen , and the property of American citizens on board said steamers ; four were for damages by reason of the al- leged detention of vessels laden with saltpetre at Calcutta , 8 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
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... reason of the alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment of British subjects by the authorities of the United States ; seventy - seven covered claims for damages by reason of the alleged unlawful capture and condemnation or detention of ...
... reason of the alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment of British subjects by the authorities of the United States ; seventy - seven covered claims for damages by reason of the alleged unlawful capture and condemnation or detention of ...
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... reason to sup- pose that it was the intention of either government to put the limited meaning on the words " British subject , " contended for in the arguments in support of the demurrer , so as to exclude from our jurisdiction a ...
... reason to sup- pose that it was the intention of either government to put the limited meaning on the words " British subject , " contended for in the arguments in support of the demurrer , so as to exclude from our jurisdiction a ...
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... reason of his birth in Kentucky ; and he was not capable of divesting himself of his American nationality by mere volition and resi- dence from time to time in Scotland and holding office there . Being , then , a subject of both ...
... reason of his birth in Kentucky ; and he was not capable of divesting himself of his American nationality by mere volition and resi- dence from time to time in Scotland and holding office there . Being , then , a subject of both ...
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... reason of their respective laws , neither of these senses can fairly be taken ; another , though limited , sense must be sought , common to both countries . There is such a re- stricted sense of the language employed here . In ...
... reason of their respective laws , neither of these senses can fairly be taken ; another , though limited , sense must be sought , common to both countries . There is such a re- stricted sense of the language employed here . In ...
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00 And interest 00 Disallowed alleged American Commissioners appeared April arbitration arrest authorities Award BANCROFT DAVIS blockade Britain Britannic Majesty British Commissioners British government British subjects burned by United Canada capture cargo Circassian citizens claimant coast commission unanimously condemnation confederate Cotton burned Cotton seized counsel cruisers damages decree destroyed by United detention dispatch district court domiciled Edwin Gerard enemy enemy's export fish fisheries High Commissioners Illegal imprisonment imprisonment by United Island J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS John June jurisdiction Liverpool Lord Russell Majesty's government March Matamoras memorial ment military Nassau nations navigation neutral officers opinion Orleans owners parties Peterhoff port President prize court proclamation proofs question rebel respect Rosario Straits Saint Albans saltpetre Secretary Seward ship Sir Edward Thornton sold by United Supreme Court taken by United TENTERDEN tion treaty tribunal unanimously disallowed United States Army United States steamer vessel Washington William
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Page 271 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 271 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 281 - ... provided, however, that the 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 282 - Parties, that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have for ever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind...
Page 279 - 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 Gulf 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 418 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or in the event of any commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the. period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy.
Page 319 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 281 - 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 299 - 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 424 - In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.