Congressional Serial Set, Issue 3624

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - United States
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Page 282 - and that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and that a» to those matters he believes it to be true.
Page 293 - for the purpose of manning and serving on board any merchant vessel of the United States, anything to the contrary in any act of Congress notwithstanding. And the third clause—with the interpretation of which we are immediately concerned—provides that "such seaman shall, for all purposes of protection as an American citizen, be
Page 248 - cases. The citizens and subjects of both parties shall be allowed to employ such advocates, solicitors, notaries, agents, and factors, as they may judge proper, in all their affairs and in all their trials at law in which they may be concerned, before the tribunals of the other party; and such
Page 293 - p. 3; Ex. Doc. No. 224, Fifty-fourth a citizen of the United States; and every seaman, being a foreigner, shall, after his declaration to become a citizen of the United States, and after he shall have served such three years, be deemed a citizen of the United States for the purpose
Page xviii - alone and in her own way, or with our friendly cooperation. " When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its
Page xxii - as has been set forth by the President of the United States in his message to Congress of April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon which the action of Congress was invited : Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of
Page 275 - PAPERS, RELATING TO THE ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT, AT SANTIAGO DE CUBA, OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS GUSTAVE RICHELIEU AND AUGUST BOLTEN. APRIL 20,1897.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of March 26,
Page 185 - 2); that no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on presentment of a grand jury except in cases arising in the land and naval forces or in the militia when

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