Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Rebel cruisers. Negotiations concerning claims conventionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 - Alabama claims |
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... Lord Russell , June 23 , inclosing Mr. Dudley's letter containing information in regard to the vessel . Secondly . Lord Russell's reply , June 25 , stating that the matter had been referred to the proper de- partment of her Majesty's ...
... Lord Russell , June 23 , inclosing Mr. Dudley's letter containing information in regard to the vessel . Secondly . Lord Russell's reply , June 25 , stating that the matter had been referred to the proper de- partment of her Majesty's ...
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... Lord Russell of 4th instant , transmitting a letter from Mr. Dudley , and deposition , & c . , of Henry Red- den , going to show the piratical character of the Alabama , and requesting an answer to his previous notes on the subject ...
... Lord Russell of 4th instant , transmitting a letter from Mr. Dudley , and deposition , & c . , of Henry Red- den , going to show the piratical character of the Alabama , and requesting an answer to his previous notes on the subject ...
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... Lord Russell . Has received No. 250. The President is grat- ified at the apparent change in British opinion . Calls attention to the anomaly of our fortifying New York against an ex- pedition from Liverpool . Lord Lyons has arrived and ...
... Lord Russell . Has received No. 250. The President is grat- ified at the apparent change in British opinion . Calls attention to the anomaly of our fortifying New York against an ex- pedition from Liverpool . Lord Lyons has arrived and ...
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... Lord Russell's note of the 19th , to the minor points of which he is preparing an answer . Lord Russell adverts to cir- cumstances leading to the treaty of 1794 , as being materially different from those in case of the Alabama . It was ...
... Lord Russell's note of the 19th , to the minor points of which he is preparing an answer . Lord Russell adverts to cir- cumstances leading to the treaty of 1794 , as being materially different from those in case of the Alabama . It was ...
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... Lord Russell is ready to receive suggestions with a view to such alterations . Inclosing his reply of the 30th ultimo , to Lord Russell's note of the 19th , in which he states that his previous representation was based on the ground ...
... Lord Russell is ready to receive suggestions with a view to such alterations . Inclosing his reply of the 30th ultimo , to Lord Russell's note of the 19th , in which he states that his previous representation was based on the ground ...
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Page 256 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 762 - 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 256 - In witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and Date, One of which three Bills being Accomplished, the other two to stand Void. And so GOD send the good Ship to her desired Port in safety, Amen.
Page 753 - They shall investigate and decide upon such claims in such order and in such manner as they may think proper, but upon such evidence or information only as shall be furnished by or on behalf of the respective Governments.
Page 753 - London at the earliest convenient period after they shall have been respectively named; and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, without fear...
Page 755 - America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged either at Washington or at London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.
Page 745 - The high contracting parties agree to consider the result of the proceedings of this commission as a full, perfect, and final settlement of every claim upon either government arising out of any transaction of a date prior to the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention...
Page 744 - ... make and subscribe a solemn declaration in a form similar to that which shall already have been made and subscribed by the commissioners, which shall be entered on the record of their proceedings.
Page 552 - Whether the President in fulfilling his duties as Commanderin-chief, in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of belligerents, is a question to be decided by him, and this Court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the political department of the Government to which this power was entrusted. ' He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands.
Page 743 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows : ARTICLE I. The High Contracting Parties agree that all claims on the part of Corporations, Companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of the United States...