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... Mexico during the year 1855 , statement of the position and distribution of the ... Army in the department of the Pacific during the year 1855 , statement of the position and distribution of the ..... Army during the year ending ...
... Mexico during the year 1855 , statement of the position and distribution of the ... Army in the department of the Pacific during the year 1855 , statement of the position and distribution of the ..... Army during the year ending ...
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... Mexico and the United States , ( in several parts , quarto , ) report of the ...... Comptroller of the Treasury , on the claims of William R. Glover and Thomas W. Mather , and their associates , report of the First ..... Comptroller of ...
... Mexico and the United States , ( in several parts , quarto , ) report of the ...... Comptroller of the Treasury , on the claims of William R. Glover and Thomas W. Mather , and their associates , report of the First ..... Comptroller of ...
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... Mexico by General Garland , report of expeditions against the . Indians on the Pacific by General Wool , report of expeditions against the .. Indians , and the convention of 1850 with Great Britain , correspondence and other papers ...
... Mexico by General Garland , report of expeditions against the . Indians on the Pacific by General Wool , report of expeditions against the .. Indians , and the convention of 1850 with Great Britain , correspondence and other papers ...
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... Mexico , of June 30 , 1853 , message from the President of the United States communicating a report of the Secretary of State relating to the boundary line and the payment of the three millions under the treaty with ... Mexico and the ...
... Mexico , of June 30 , 1853 , message from the President of the United States communicating a report of the Secretary of State relating to the boundary line and the payment of the three millions under the treaty with ... Mexico and the ...
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... Mexico of June 30 , 1853 , message from the President of the United States , communicating a report of the Postmaster General , relative to the postal arrangements between the Atlantic and Pacific , message from the ..... President of ...
... Mexico of June 30 , 1853 , message from the President of the United States , communicating a report of the Postmaster General , relative to the postal arrangements between the Atlantic and Pacific , message from the ..... President of ...
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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 125 - 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...