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... undersigned , commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts to confer with the government of the United States upon a conventional line to be established on our north- eastern boundary , are ready to proceed in the execution of ...
... undersigned , commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts to confer with the government of the United States upon a conventional line to be established on our north- eastern boundary , are ready to proceed in the execution of ...
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... undersigned , Secretary of State of the United States , has now the honor to acquaint his lordship , by direction of the President , that the undersigned is ready , on be- half of the government of the United States , and duly author ...
... undersigned , Secretary of State of the United States , has now the honor to acquaint his lordship , by direction of the President , that the undersigned is ready , on be- half of the government of the United States , and duly author ...
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... undersigned , commissioners of the state of Maine on the subject of the northeastern boundary , have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note , addressed to them under date of the 15th instant , with inclosures therein referred ...
... undersigned , commissioners of the state of Maine on the subject of the northeastern boundary , have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note , addressed to them under date of the 15th instant , with inclosures therein referred ...
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... undersigned have not failed to bestow upon it the grave deliberation and consideration which its nature and im- portance , and their own responsible position , demand . If the result of that deliberation should not fully justify the ...
... undersigned have not failed to bestow upon it the grave deliberation and consideration which its nature and im- portance , and their own responsible position , demand . If the result of that deliberation should not fully justify the ...
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... undersigned at once decided to yield , upon the most liberal terms , this long - sought con- venience ; and they indulged the confident expectation that such a concession would at once meet all the wants and wishes of the English ...
... undersigned at once decided to yield , upon the most liberal terms , this long - sought con- venience ; and they indulged the confident expectation that such a concession would at once meet all the wants and wishes of the English ...
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Page 242 - Whereas doubts have arisen what river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioned in the said treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described...
Page 372 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...
Page 59 - Collins, previously to the year 1774, as the 45th degree of north latitude, and which has been known and understood to be the line of actual division between the States of New York and Vermont on one side, and the British province of Canada on the other; and, from said point of intersection, west, along the said dividing line, as heretofore known and understood, to the Iroquois or St. Lawrence river.
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 376 - Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation...
Page 226 - It being understood that all the water communications and all the usual portages along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and also Grand Portage, from the shore of Lake Superior to the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the use of the citizens and subjects of both countries.
Page 233 - John, or by its tributaries, of which fact reasonable evidence shall, if required, be produced, shall have free access into and through the said river and its...
Page 183 - In the name of Almighty God : The United States of America and the United Mexican States, animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two republics, and to establish upon...
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 367 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana...