Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 16 |
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... attended with consequences most adverse to their commercial prosperity without any compensating advantages . Most certainly no better rea- sons can be given for such a surrender , than for foregoing the right to receive the services of ...
... attended with consequences most adverse to their commercial prosperity without any compensating advantages . Most certainly no better rea- sons can be given for such a surrender , than for foregoing the right to receive the services of ...
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... attendance to answer questions , which I positively refused to comply with . He then dispatched , " with the knowledge and consent of the muni- cipal authorities , " eight of his soldiers to lie in ambush on the road I was to take , and ...
... attendance to answer questions , which I positively refused to comply with . He then dispatched , " with the knowledge and consent of the muni- cipal authorities , " eight of his soldiers to lie in ambush on the road I was to take , and ...
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... attending Mr. Wright , your friend , thereon , and with him to Sloman's lock - up in Cursitor street , Chancery lane ; long confer- ence with you thereon , when it appeared that Mr. Geo . Peabody , of Warnford Court , had , in ...
... attending Mr. Wright , your friend , thereon , and with him to Sloman's lock - up in Cursitor street , Chancery lane ; long confer- ence with you thereon , when it appeared that Mr. Geo . Peabody , of Warnford Court , had , in ...
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... attending at the officer's therewith , who demanded the payment of certain fees which we advised you to resist , and you were ulti- mately discharged without payment thereof ; attending at the judges ' chambers , searching for and ...
... attending at the officer's therewith , who demanded the payment of certain fees which we advised you to resist , and you were ulti- mately discharged without payment thereof ; attending at the judges ' chambers , searching for and ...
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... Attending you , reading over and settling the draft ; affidavit in part , to be made for obtain- ing inspection of the bills , and further appoint- ment made for to - morrow 14. Attending you by appointment , again going through the ...
... Attending you , reading over and settling the draft ; affidavit in part , to be made for obtain- ing inspection of the bills , and further appoint- ment made for to - morrow 14. Attending you by appointment , again going through the ...
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Page 6 - 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 3 - 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 the enemy's flag.
Page 5 - DECLARATION RESPECTING MARITIME LAW, SIGNED BY THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRIA, FRANCE, PRUSSIA, RUSSIA, SARDINIA, AND TURKEY, ASSEMBLED IN CONGRESS AT PARIS, APRIL 16, 1856.
Page 5 - That free ships make free goods' — that is to say, that the effects or goods belonging to subjects or citizens of a Power or State at war are free from capture and confiscation when found on board of neutral vessels, with the exception of articles contraband of war. 2* That the property of neutrals on board an enemy's vessel is not subject to confiscation, unless the same be contraband of war.
Page 3 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the 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 1 - The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred a resolution of the House of Representatives...
Page 11 - It is, in the opinion of this Government, to be seriously apprehended that if the use of privateers be abandoned, the dominion over the seas will be surrendered to those Powers which adopt the policy and have the means of keeping up large navies. The one which has a decided naval superiority would be potentially the mistress of the ocean, and by the abolition of privateering that domination would be more firmly secured.
Page 20 - An act to provide for the ascertainment and satisfaction of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the 31st day of July, 1801," which was presented to me on the 6th instant, with my objections to its becoming a law.
Page 127 - Wherefore I, the said notary, at the request aforesaid, have protested, and by these presents do solemnly protest, as well against the...
Page 2 - ... who had agreed, and those who should afterwards accede to it, should, after the adoption of the same, enter into no arrangement on the application of maritime law in time of war without stipulating for a strict observance of the four points resolved by the declaration. The...
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| Title | Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 16 United States congressional serial set |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate |
| Published | 1856 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2006 |
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