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... communication . I am , sir , respectfully , your obedient servant , W. PRESTON , Esq . , Madrid . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . The same , mutatis mutandis , to E. G. FAIR , Esq . , Brussels ; THEO . S. FAY , Esq . , Berne ; Jos . A. WRIGHT , ESQ ...
... communication . I am , sir , respectfully , your obedient servant , W. PRESTON , Esq . , Madrid . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . The same , mutatis mutandis , to E. G. FAIR , Esq . , Brussels ; THEO . S. FAY , Esq . , Berne ; Jos . A. WRIGHT , ESQ ...
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... communication . This department has little more to add to that paper when it is read , as it ought to be , in connexion with the President's inaugural address , on which it rests for its basis . It may , however , be well to call your ...
... communication . This department has little more to add to that paper when it is read , as it ought to be , in connexion with the President's inaugural address , on which it rests for its basis . It may , however , be well to call your ...
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... a copy of a recent communication to the minister of foreign affairs . Prussia will take efficient steps to sustain the government of the United States in the protection of property and commerce , ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT . 39.
... a copy of a recent communication to the minister of foreign affairs . Prussia will take efficient steps to sustain the government of the United States in the protection of property and commerce , ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT . 39.
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... communication , has remarked that it would cer- tainly be most desirable for Prussia that this government should embrace this occasion to announce its adhesion to the celebrated declaration of Paris . But that if this could not be ...
... communication , has remarked that it would cer- tainly be most desirable for Prussia that this government should embrace this occasion to announce its adhesion to the celebrated declaration of Paris . But that if this could not be ...
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... communication without expressing to Baron Gerolt the great satisfaction with which this government has learned , through the communication now acknowledged , that his Majesty the King of Prussia faithfully adheres to the existing ...
... communication without expressing to Baron Gerolt the great satisfaction with which this government has learned , through the communication now acknowledged , that his Majesty the King of Prussia faithfully adheres to the existing ...
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Page 187 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 163 - Government, directly or indirectly, commences or carries on any verbal or written correspondence or intercourse with any foreign Government or any officer or agent thereof, with an intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign Government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the Government of the United States...
Page 17 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 548 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1906.
Page 188 - Constitution and the laws, do hereby declare and proclaim: 1. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods with the exception of contraband of war. 2. Neutral goods not contraband of war are not liable to confiscation under the enemy's flag.
Page 465 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 522 - Deaf was incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind under act of Congress, February 16, 1857 (11 Stat.
Page 143 - In affixing his signature to the convention of this day between Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, the Earl Russell declares, by order of Her Majesty, that Her Majesty does not intend thereby to undertake any engagement which shall have any bearing, direct or indirect, on the internal differences now prevailing in the United States.
Page 145 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 251 - Accept the assurances of the high consideration with which. I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, THOUVENEL.