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The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable ... Charles Cotesworth Beaman No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 227 - purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, for the purpose of taking possession of and detaining any such ship or vessel, in order to the execution of the prohibition and penalties of this act, and
Page 213 - dispatched, any ship with intent or knowledge that the same shall or will be employed in the military or naval service of any foreign power in any war then being waged by such power against the subjects or property of any foreign belligerent power with whom her Majesty shall not then be at war.
Page 169 - concerned in the furnishing, fitting out and arming of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel should be employed in the service of any foreign state to cruise or commit hostilities against another state with which the United States should be at peace.
Page 166 - I have given instructions to those officers to whom it belongs to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them.
Page 173 - 10. And be it further enacted, That the owners or consignees of every armed ship or vessel sailing out of the ports of the United States, belonging wholly or in part to citizens thereof, shall enter into bond to the United States, with sufficient securities, prior to clearing out the same, in double
Page 227 - The United States act of 1818 provides " that in every case in which the process issuing out of any court of the United States shall be disobeyed or resisted by any person or persons having the custody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any foreign prince or state,
Page 169 - When individuals shall, within the United States, array themselves in hostility against any of the powers at war, or enter upon military expeditions or enterprises within the jurisdiction of the United States, or where penalties on violations of the law of nations may have been indistinctly marked or are inadequate, these
Page 169 - It rests with the wisdom of Congress to correct, improve or enforce this plan of procedure, and it will probably be found expedient to extend the legal code and jurisdiction of the courts of the United States to many cases which, though dependent upon principles already recognized, demand some
Page 159 - 'I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that they are unable to comply with your request to make a trial trip of the El Tousson, one of the ironclad vessels fitting in your yard at Birkenhead, in the course of this week, or within any other suitable time.
Page 72 - laid before me, he allows the vessel to leave Liverpool, he will incur a heavy responsibility of which the Board of Customs, under whose direction he appears to be acting, must take their share. " It well deserves consideration whether, if the vessel be allowed to escape, the Federal Government would not have serious grounds of remonstrance.