 | william w williams - 1885 - 754 pages
...navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." This provision seems strange, to say the least. Great Britain, according to the terms of the two treaties,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. ARTICLE IX. In case it should so happen, that any place or territory, belonging to Great Britain or... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 344 pages
...navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States. ARTICLE IX. 239 IN case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging to Great Britain... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1362 pages
...navigation of the River Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States ;" and violated the Treaty of Spain concluded October 27, 1795, which declares : " * * * And his Catholic... | |
 | Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 866 pages
...provided in article 8, that ' the navigation of the river Mississippi shall forever remain freo and opon to the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of the United Slates.' But the United States having purchased Lonisiana, on April 30, 1еЮ3, from France, and Florida... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 620 pages
...extent and importance of the country in dispute, there has been imminent danger of collision between the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States, including their respective authorities, in that quarter. The prospect of a speedy arrangement has contributed... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1889 - 800 pages
...the navigation of the Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, should forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.' When the treaty came to be ratified and published, in 1784, the Spanish government was already acquainted... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1889 - 1048 pages
...rivers Mississippi and St. Lawrence from their sources to the ocean shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United otates. ARTICLE IX. The prisoners made respectively by the arms of his Britannic majesty and the United... | |
 | Nathaniel Pitt Langford - Frontier and pioneer life - 1890 - 286 pages
...navigation of the Mississippi from its source to its mouth should be and remain forever free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. The privilege, sufficient for ordinary purposes in time of peace, was liable at any moment and on almost... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - History - 1897 - 410 pages
...that the navigation of the river, from its source to the ocean^ should forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. But his Catholic Majesty denied absolutely that these treaties gave the United States any rights whatever... | |
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The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. 
