United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 5932U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... purchasing wood , and of obtaining water , and for no other purpose whatever can scarcely be appreciated , at the present day , unless the fact is borne in mind that , in 1818 , no foreign vessel of any kind was , unless under ...
... purchasing wood , and of obtaining water , and for no other purpose whatever can scarcely be appreciated , at the present day , unless the fact is borne in mind that , in 1818 , no foreign vessel of any kind was , unless under ...
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... purchasing wood , or of obtaining water , he is bound to furnish evidence that all the members of his crew are inhabitants of the United States . We cannot for a moment admit the existence of any such limitation upon our treaty rights ...
... purchasing wood , or of obtaining water , he is bound to furnish evidence that all the members of his crew are inhabitants of the United States . We cannot for a moment admit the existence of any such limitation upon our treaty rights ...
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... purchasing wood , and obtaining water , cannot reasonably be construed as applying to the smaller bays only . If it were , American fishermen would have no right to resort to the larger bays for those purposes ; for even if a right to ...
... purchasing wood , and obtaining water , cannot reasonably be construed as applying to the smaller bays only . If it were , American fishermen would have no right to resort to the larger bays for those purposes ; for even if a right to ...
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... Commissioners proposed that American fish- ermen should have liberty to enter the bays on the non - treaty coasts for the purpose of purchasing bait . This was rejected 116 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN . History of the question_.
... Commissioners proposed that American fish- ermen should have liberty to enter the bays on the non - treaty coasts for the purpose of purchasing bait . This was rejected 116 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN . History of the question_.
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for the purpose of purchasing bait . This was rejected by the British Commissioners , and the right of access to those coasts was limited to the four purposes specified in the treaty . The British Commissioners , on their part ...
for the purpose of purchasing bait . This was rejected by the British Commissioners , and the right of access to those coasts was limited to the four purposes specified in the treaty . The British Commissioners , on their part ...
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Page 258 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.
Page 21 - St. Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 21 - Pennsylvania Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign and Independent States ; that he treats with them as such ; and for himself, his Heirs and Successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 84 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 10 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 648 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 41 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 22 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 606 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 258 - Whereas differences have arisen respecting the Liberty claimed by the United States for the Inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, and cure Fish on certain Coasts, Bays, Harbours, and Creeks of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America, it is agreed between The High Contracting Parties, that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind...