History of Two Reciprocity Treaties: The Treaty with Canada in 1854, the Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands in 1876, with a Chapter on the Treaty-making Power of the House of RepresentativesA History of Two Reciprocity Treaties: The Treaty with Canada in 1854: The Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands in 1876 by Chalfant Robinson, first published in 1904, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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2d Sess 32 Cong abrogation admitted free annexation APPENDIX TABLE bill Britain British North American British West Indies Canadian canals Captain Cook cent coal coast commercial Congress Consul corn countries debate diagram Docs Domestic Commerce Dutch standard effect England English Executive Documents exports favor fish fishery flour Foreign Relations France free of duty free trade French Globe Hawaii Hawaiian government Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian sugar Honolulu House of Representatives imports increase interest Jarves Jay's treaty kinds King Lawrence lumber manufactured Marcy Maritime Provinces minority report nation natural products negotiated North American Provinces Nova Scotia operation Pacific passed political population ports possession President procity question ratified reciprocal trade reciprocity treaty Rept river Sandwich Islands Secretary secure Senate ships stipulations sugar supply tariff taro tion Total Treasury treaty of 1854 treaty of 1876 United vessels vote West Indies wheat
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Page 95 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage reciprocally to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the...
Page 75 - The decision of the Commissioners, and of the Arbitrator or Umpire shall be given in writing in each case, and shall be signed by them respectively.
Page 75 - Edward's island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Page 76 - It is further agreed that, if at any time the British Government should exercise the said reserved right, the Government of the United States shall have the right of suspending, if it think fit, the...
Page 74 - The Commissioners so named shall meet at London at the earliest convenient period after they shall have been respectively named ; and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn Declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity...
Page 75 - ... seacoasts and shores of the United States and of the said islands, without being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land upon the said coasts of the United States...
Page 73 - States fishermen by the convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed at London on the 20th day of October, 1818, of taking, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British North American colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with the subjects of her...
Page 188 - ... butter, cheese, lard, tallow; bullion; coal; cordage, naval stores including tar, pitch, resin, turpentine raw and rectified; copper and composition sheathing; nails and bolts; cotton and manufactures of cotton bleached and unbleached, and whether or not colored, stained, painted, or printed...
Page 188 - ... staves, and headings; wool and manufactures of wool, other than ready-made clothing; wagons and carts for the purposes of agriculture or of drayage; wood and manufactures of wood, or of wood and metal except furniture either upholstered or carved and carriages; textile manufactures, made of a combination of wool, cotton, silk, or linen, or of any two or more of them other than when readymade clothing; harness and all manufactures of leather; starch; and tobacco, whether in leaf or manufactured.
Page 190 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention 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.