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Page vii
... treaty of extradition with Great Britain , after due rati- fication , was proclaimed on the 25th of last March . Its beneficial working is already apparent . The difference between the two Governments touching the fur- seal question in ...
... treaty of extradition with Great Britain , after due rati- fication , was proclaimed on the 25th of last March . Its beneficial working is already apparent . The difference between the two Governments touching the fur- seal question in ...
Page xxii
... treaty was ratified by the Senate and the necessary legislation enacted by Congress . Experience has shown that some treaties looking to reciprocal trade have failed to secure a two - thirds vote in the Senate for ratification , and ...
... treaty was ratified by the Senate and the necessary legislation enacted by Congress . Experience has shown that some treaties looking to reciprocal trade have failed to secure a two - thirds vote in the Senate for ratification , and ...
Page xliii
... treaty stipulations towards American merchants and missionaries ; cites decisions of the United States Supreme Court , showing that the bill is a violation of existing treaties ; asks for infor mation as to the President's views on the ...
... treaty stipulations towards American merchants and missionaries ; cites decisions of the United States Supreme Court , showing that the bill is a violation of existing treaties ; asks for infor mation as to the President's views on the ...
Page lix
... treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britain , and argues to show that by that treaty Great Britain was excluded from all rivers emptying into Bebring Sea , including the Yucon and the Porcupine , which rise and for a long distance ...
... treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britain , and argues to show that by that treaty Great Britain was excluded from all rivers emptying into Bebring Sea , including the Yucon and the Porcupine , which rise and for a long distance ...
Page lxi
... treaty of 1824 between the United States and Russia is an entirely novel one . Dissents from his interpretation of article 7 of the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia . It re- ferred to all the possessions of the two powers ...
... treaty of 1824 between the United States and Russia is an entirely novel one . Dissents from his interpretation of article 7 of the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia . It re- ferred to all the possessions of the two powers ...
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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.