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Page 1987
... Anno Domini one thousand eught hundred . and forty two : Dein Webster . Ashburtong LAST PAGE OF WEBSTER - ASHBURTON TREATY , WHICH FIXED THE NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY LINE . good faith , by the United States and the Citizens ...
... Anno Domini one thousand eught hundred . and forty two : Dein Webster . Ashburtong LAST PAGE OF WEBSTER - ASHBURTON TREATY , WHICH FIXED THE NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY LINE . good faith , by the United States and the Citizens ...
Page 2008
... citizens nor troops are to be restrained from any necessary and proper acts of self- defense against any attempts to molest them . He is instructed to open communications with those yet remaining , and endeavor by all peaceable means to ...
... citizens nor troops are to be restrained from any necessary and proper acts of self- defense against any attempts to molest them . He is instructed to open communications with those yet remaining , and endeavor by all peaceable means to ...
Page 2019
... citizens and subjects of both countries . It has happened , therefore , in a few instances that the use of the river in particular places would be greatly diminished to one party or the other if in fact there was not a choice in the use ...
... citizens and subjects of both countries . It has happened , therefore , in a few instances that the use of the river in particular places would be greatly diminished to one party or the other if in fact there was not a choice in the use ...
Page 2046
... citizens to be condemned only upon a fair and impar- tial trial , according to law and evidence , before the country ... citizen . I protest against it in the name of the people , by whose will I stand where I do , by whose authority I ...
... citizens to be condemned only upon a fair and impar- tial trial , according to law and evidence , before the country ... citizen . I protest against it in the name of the people , by whose will I stand where I do , by whose authority I ...
Page 2047
... citizens , on the happy change in the aspect of our foreign affairs since my last annual message . Causes of complaint at that time existed between the United States and Great Britain which , attended by irritating circumstances ...
... citizens , on the happy change in the aspect of our foreign affairs since my last annual message . Causes of complaint at that time existed between the United States and Great Britain which , attended by irritating circumstances ...
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Page 1979 - 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 northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 1980 - Lawrence : comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.