The Diplomatic and Official Papers of Daniel Webster, While Secretary of State

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Harper & Brothers, 1848 - United States - 392 pages
 

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Page 370 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...
Page 374 - Plata, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the said United Provinces, of any articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of his Britannic majesty's dominions, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce or manufacture of any other foreign country...
Page 241 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 237 - President of the United States of America, 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.
Page 236 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 230 - ... the United States of America and her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 232 - Falls, from which the Commissioners traced the line to the most northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods ; thence, along the said line, to the said most northwestern point, being in latitude 49° 23...
Page 230 - A Treaty to Settle and Define the Boundaries Between the Territories of the United States and the Possessions of Her Britannic Majesty in North America, for the Final Suppression of the African Slave Trade and for the Giving up of Criminals, Fugitive from Justice, in Certain Cases.
Page 85 - A vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of a marine league from the shore, is regarded as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and subjected, exclusively to the jurisdiction of that nation.
Page 115 - It will be for that Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.

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