A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-general, Volume 2Francis Wharton U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Government publications |
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Page 272 - Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas,' and on the 29th of December, 1845, it was jointly resolved 'that the State of Texas shall be one * * * of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal
Page 73 - 9. A stipulation in a treaty that "no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any article the produce or manufacture of the dominion of the treaty-making power * * * than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the produce or manufacture of any foreign country,
Page 205 - vicinity thereof, or should occupy or fortify or colonize or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America.' " So far as the United States and Great Britain were concerned, these stipulations were expressed in unmistakable
Page 21 - have caused the said treaty to be made public to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof." The territory was transferred by Russia to the United States on -October 18,
Page 158 - destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United States, and from every port, place, and harbor within the same.' " But when the British forces were withdrawn from New York, on the 25th of the November following the signature of the definitive treaty,
Page 191 - coast, or any part of Central America ; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords, or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have to or with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying,
Page 238 - to any other communications, whether by canal or railway, across the Isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuautepec or Panama.
Page 343 - Williams, 1873. The declaration in the act of July 27,1868, chap. 249, that the right of expatriation is " a natural and inherent right of all people," applies to citizens of the United States as well as to those of other countries. 14 Op.,
Page 437 - All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States, but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.
Page 437 - ' It is provided by law that ' all children born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are to be declared to be citizens of the United States ; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never