Report on the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario: Containing in Part the Substance of a Report Prepared for the Government of the Province in 1872, by David Mills and Afterwards Revised and Considerably Enlarged by the Author for the Purposes of the Arbitration Between the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario |
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... Council , and Royal Proclamations , interpreted by the aid of contemporaneous facts , and by well - established principles of public law . Before citing any of those public documents from which the true limits of Ontario are to be ...
... Council , and Royal Proclamations , interpreted by the aid of contemporaneous facts , and by well - established principles of public law . Before citing any of those public documents from which the true limits of Ontario are to be ...
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... council with the Assiniboines , the Lake tribes , and the Sioux , with a view to establishing a peace amongst them . He wanted them to bring their peltries for sale to his new fort , and peace was necessary to his success . In the ...
... council with the Assiniboines , the Lake tribes , and the Sioux , with a view to establishing a peace amongst them . He wanted them to bring their peltries for sale to his new fort , and peace was necessary to his success . In the ...
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... Council of State , to the Government of Louisiana . The following is the ordinance : — " The King in Council , having under consideration the letters patent in form of an edict of the month of August last , establishing a commercial ...
... Council of State , to the Government of Louisiana . The following is the ordinance : — " The King in Council , having under consideration the letters patent in form of an edict of the month of August last , establishing a commercial ...
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... Council of September , 1717 , in which it is spoken of as " the country of the savages called the Illinois " -embraced the country between the Illinois and the Wabash rivers . That the country east of the Wabash was regarded as a part ...
... Council of September , 1717 , in which it is spoken of as " the country of the savages called the Illinois " -embraced the country between the Illinois and the Wabash rivers . That the country east of the Wabash was regarded as a part ...
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... Council , to issue this our Royal Proclamation , here- by to publish and declare to all our loving subjects , that we have , with the advice of our said Privy Council , granted our Letters Patent , under our Great Seal of Great Britain ...
... Council , to issue this our Royal Proclamation , here- by to publish and declare to all our loving subjects , that we have , with the advice of our said Privy Council , granted our Letters Patent , under our Great Seal of Great Britain ...
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Page 39 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite...
Page 112 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any 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 harbour within the same...
Page 105 - Superior ; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods...
Page 66 - We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council...
Page 64 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, hereby...
Page 29 - ... that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...
Page 63 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi, from its source to the River Iberville.
Page 65 - And we do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under Our Sovereignty, Protection and Dominion, for the Use of the said Indians, all the Lands and Territories...
Page 34 - Assemblies can be called as aforesaid, all Persons Inhabiting in or resorting to our Said Colonies may confide in our Royal Protection for the Enjoyment of the Benefit of the Laws of our Realm of England...
Page 30 - British subjects with their goods and produce, shall be treated on the same footing as citizens of the United States; it being however always understood that nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing, or intended to prevent, the Government of the United States from making any regulations respecting the navigation of the said river or rivers, not inconsistent with the present treaty.