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... loss by fire , for which , is responsible .. Murder , letter from the Secretary of War , transmitting draught of a bill giving general courts - martial jurisdic- tion of the crimes of , manslaughter , & c .. N. National - bank ...
... loss by fire , for which , is responsible .. Murder , letter from the Secretary of War , transmitting draught of a bill giving general courts - martial jurisdic- tion of the crimes of , manslaughter , & c .. N. National - bank ...
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... loss by fire for which Sec- ond - Lieutenant Wallace Mott , Eighth Infantry , and assistant commissary of subsistence , is responsible ... the chief clerk of War Department com- municates the circumstances of the murder of Lieut . Eben ...
... loss by fire for which Sec- ond - Lieutenant Wallace Mott , Eighth Infantry , and assistant commissary of subsistence , is responsible ... the chief clerk of War Department com- municates the circumstances of the murder of Lieut . Eben ...
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... . The commission did not pass on the question whether , in case the city had been burned by the order or permission of the com- manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have 50 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
... . The commission did not pass on the question whether , in case the city had been burned by the order or permission of the com- manding officer , any liability for resulting losses would have 50 AMERICAN - BRITISH CLAIMS COMMISSION .
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... loss sustained by the destruction of cotton belonging to the claimant by men who are described by the claimant as rebels in arms against the Government of the United States . The commissioners are of opinion that the United States ...
... loss sustained by the destruction of cotton belonging to the claimant by men who are described by the claimant as rebels in arms against the Government of the United States . The commissioners are of opinion that the United States ...
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... losses of Mr. O'Connor were solely in consequence of the failure of the United States to maintain and enforce their authority in the State of Virginia , and to suppress the civil and military disorders then existing there . A demurrer ...
... losses of Mr. O'Connor were solely in consequence of the failure of the United States to maintain and enforce their authority in the State of Virginia , and to suppress the civil and military disorders then existing there . A demurrer ...
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00 And interest 00 Disallowed alleged American Commissioners appeared April arbitration arrest authorities Award BANCROFT DAVIS blockade Britain Britannic Majesty British Commissioners British government British subjects burned by United Canada capture cargo Circassian citizens claimant coast commission unanimously condemnation confederate Cotton burned Cotton seized counsel cruisers damages decree destroyed by United detention dispatch district court domiciled Edwin Gerard enemy enemy's export fish fisheries High Commissioners Illegal imprisonment imprisonment by United Island J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS John June jurisdiction Liverpool Lord Russell Majesty's government March Matamoras memorial ment military Nassau nations navigation neutral officers opinion Orleans owners parties Peterhoff port President prize court proclamation proofs question rebel respect Rosario Straits Saint Albans saltpetre Secretary Seward ship Sir Edward Thornton sold by United Supreme Court taken by United TENTERDEN tion treaty tribunal unanimously disallowed United States Army United States steamer vessel Washington William
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Page 271 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 271 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 281 - ... provided, however, that the 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 282 - Parties, that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have for ever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind...
Page 279 - 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 418 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or in the event of any commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the. period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy.
Page 319 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 281 - 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 299 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 424 - In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.