Case of the Black Warrior: And Other Violations of the Rights of American Citizens by Spanish Authorities

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B. Tucker, Senate printer, 1854 - Seizure of vessels and cargoes - 380 pages
 

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Page 188 - The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal goods...
Page 185 - WITH reference to the note which you were pleased to address to me, under date of the...
Page 57 - I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
Page 188 - ... such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in like cases.
Page 273 - 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 agents shall have free access to be present at the proceedings in such causes, and at the taking of all examinations and evidence which may be exhibited in the said trials.
Page 189 - And where, on the death of any person holding real estate within the territories of the one party, such real estate would, by the laws of the land, descend on a citizen or subject of the other, were he not disqualified by alienage, such citizen or subject shall be allowed a reasonable time to sell the same, and to withdraw the proceeds without molestation...
Page 248 - I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo, and to inform you that...
Page 140 - On this day of 19 , before me personally appeared and h wi , to me well known to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the same a s their free act and deed. In Testimony Whereof; I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the day and year first above written.
Page 49 - WASHINGTON, December 4, 1852. SIR : I transmit herewith a copy of a note addressed by me a short time since to the Spanish Minister here,* enclosing a copy of the affidavit of Purser Smith. I also transmit for your information a copy of a letter to Mr Sharkey Consul of the United States at Havana.
Page 273 - Purpose whatsoever, and in all Cases of Seizure, Detention, or Arrest for Debts contracted, or Offences committed by any Citizen or Subject of the one Party within the Jurisdiction of the other, the same shall be made and prosecuted by Order and Authority of Law only and according to the regular Course of Proceedings usual in such Cases.

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