Parliamentary Papers, Volume 44H.M. Stationery Office, 1857 - Bills, Legislative |
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acknowledge the receipt acquaint Africans Angola Approving arrived Article authorities Bahia Benguella Benin Bozals Brazil Brazilian Government brig British Captain Captain-General captured cargo Chiefs Clarendon to Consul coast of Africa Commodore Adams communication Consul Campbell Consul Hutchinson Consul-General Crawford copy Court cruizers Cuba December Decree Ditto Earl of Clarendon Earl of Clarendon.-(Received Excellency Foreign Office Governor-General Havana Howard inclose Inclosure instant instructions island January Jerningham João José July June King King of Dahomey Lagos landed letter Lisbon Loanda Lordship Lordship's despatch Majesty Majesty's Commissioners Majesty's Consul Majesty's Government Marquis de Loulé master Minister Mixed Commission negroes October Old Calabar Paranhos passengers Pernambuco port Portaria Portuguese present proceedings Province Province of Angola reference respecting Rio de Janeiro river schooner Senhor Paranhos Serinhaem ship Sierra Leone Signed Slave Trade slaves on board Spanish supercargoes Traffic Translation transmit herewith Treaty Tripoli ultimo vessel
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Page 400 - F. Bruce to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 25, 1865. SIR : I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a despatch which I have received from her Majesty's consul at New York, enclosing copies of...
Page 16 - Treasury, at the time the mortgage was offered for insurance, but not to exceed 3 per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July...
Page 375 - WITH reference to the note which you were pleased to address to me, under date of the...
Page 542 - If we cannot supply the demand for slave labor, then we must expect to supply with a species of labor we do not want, and which is, from the very nature of things, antagonistic to our institutions.
Page 565 - An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country,' " approved May tenth, one thousand eight hundred : "The act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Page 87 - I have received instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs "to...
Page 542 - Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.
Page 484 - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,* and also of another to the Governor of the Province of the Dardanelles, respecting the arrival of a vessel with slaves, now in quarantine at this port. The Governor, as on the former occasion reported to your Excellency, on the 1 1th instant, tells me that he has no instructions from his Government how to deal with these cases.
Page 572 - Budd to enlist himself as a soldier, in the service of a foreign prince, state, colony, district, and people, contrary to the form of the act of Congress in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States.
Page 538 - ... course of law, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars, one moiety to the use of the United States, and the other to the use of the person or persons who shall sue for such forfeiture and prosecute the same to effect, and shall moreover be imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven years, nor less than three years.