Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation: Foreign affairsThomas B. Wait, 1821 - Constitutional history |
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... his most christian majesty and the United States , reserves to the two contracting powers " the liberty of having each in the ports of the other , " consuls , vice consuls , agents and commissaries , " whose functions shall be regulated ...
... his most christian majesty and the United States , reserves to the two contracting powers " the liberty of having each in the ports of the other , " consuls , vice consuls , agents and commissaries , " whose functions shall be regulated ...
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... majesty and the United States , the same mode of recognition be observed . SEPTEMBER 3 , 1781 . A letter from his most christian majesty , received by the honourable John Laurens , was read . Ordered , That it be referred to a committee ...
... majesty and the United States , the same mode of recognition be observed . SEPTEMBER 3 , 1781 . A letter from his most christian majesty , received by the honourable John Laurens , was read . Ordered , That it be referred to a committee ...
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... his most christian majesty , appointing the sieur John Holker , consul general in the states of New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania and Delaware : Whereupon , Ordered , That the said commission be registered , and an act of recognition ...
... his most christian majesty , appointing the sieur John Holker , consul general in the states of New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania and Delaware : Whereupon , Ordered , That the said commission be registered , and an act of recognition ...
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... christian majesty and the United States , concerning vice consular power , every vice consul of his most christian majesty shall , upon the ap- plication of the consul appointing him to the supreme executive power of the state to which ...
... christian majesty and the United States , concerning vice consular power , every vice consul of his most christian majesty shall , upon the ap- plication of the consul appointing him to the supreme executive power of the state to which ...
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... his most christian majesty , viz . From a letter of 19th April . That count de Ver- gennes had transmitted to the minister the details re- specting the proposed mediation of the courts of Vien- na and Petersburg . ( The minister ...
... his most christian majesty , viz . From a letter of 19th April . That count de Ver- gennes had transmitted to the minister the details re- specting the proposed mediation of the courts of Vien- na and Petersburg . ( The minister ...
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SECRET JOURNALS OF THE ACTS &, Volume 3 United States Continental Congress No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 334 - Majesty's Dominions in America, and that the American Fishermen shall have Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays Harbours and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Settlement, without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants Proprietors or Possessors of the Ground.
Page 438 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall .use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 182 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 336 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for, or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or\ property...
Page 333 - 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 439 - It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 333 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from 236 the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 336 - 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 457 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted, by the armed force of the enemy...
Page 485 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months, to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...