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Page vii
... land commission and the municipal council are in process of organiza- tion . A rational and evenly distributed scheme of taxation , both municipal and upon imports , is in operation . Malietoa is respected as King . The new treaty of ...
... land commission and the municipal council are in process of organiza- tion . A rational and evenly distributed scheme of taxation , both municipal and upon imports , is in operation . Malietoa is respected as King . The new treaty of ...
Page xv
... lands to settlers upon the public domain has been carried out in the administration of the Land Office . No general suspicion or imputation of fraud has been allowed to delay the hearing and adjudication of individual cases upon their ...
... lands to settlers upon the public domain has been carried out in the administration of the Land Office . No general suspicion or imputation of fraud has been allowed to delay the hearing and adjudication of individual cases upon their ...
Page xvi
... land , " has attracted wide attention , and it is hoped that its influence will be highly beneficial in restraining infractions of the laws of the United States . But the fact should not be overlooked that the doctrine or belief of the ...
... land , " has attracted wide attention , and it is hoped that its influence will be highly beneficial in restraining infractions of the laws of the United States . But the fact should not be overlooked that the doctrine or belief of the ...
Page xxv
... land grants and the urgent necessity for providing some commission or tribunal for the trial of questions of title ... lands . I commend to your attention the sugges- tions of the Secretary of the Interior upon this subject . The ...
... land grants and the urgent necessity for providing some commission or tribunal for the trial of questions of title ... lands . I commend to your attention the sugges- tions of the Secretary of the Interior upon this subject . The ...
Page xxvi
... lands for agriculture , but out of the danger that the water supply and the sites for the neces- sary catch - basins may fall into the hands of individuals or private corporations and be used to render subservient the large areas ...
... lands for agriculture , but out of the danger that the water supply and the sites for the neces- sary catch - basins may fall into the hands of individuals or private corporations and be used to render subservient the large areas ...
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Page 438 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 438 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 222 - If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection, and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treatv.
Page 496 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Page 440 - Art. 3.—The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties upon the coast of the Continent, and the islands of America to the north-west...
Page 342 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties -which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Page 298 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject...
Page 539 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 485 - Meridian); and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said Meridian Line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British Possessions on the Continent of America to the North-West.
Page 479 - ... present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have 'to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country ; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.