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Page viii
... Mexican troops on the other side of the river is also making an energetic move- ment against the marauding Indian tribes . This Government looks with the greatest satisfaction upon every evidence of strength in the national authority of ...
... Mexican troops on the other side of the river is also making an energetic move- ment against the marauding Indian tribes . This Government looks with the greatest satisfaction upon every evidence of strength in the national authority of ...
Page xxxvi
... Mexican officers ; strict compliance with instructions of June 18 , as to crossing of frontier by our troops , ordered by minister of war ; Mexican legation at Washing- ton instructed to protest . 525 527 531 MEXICO - Continued . No ...
... Mexican officers ; strict compliance with instructions of June 18 , as to crossing of frontier by our troops , ordered by minister of war ; Mexican legation at Washing- ton instructed to protest . 525 527 531 MEXICO - Continued . No ...
Page xxxvii
... Mexican penal code . 534 534 535 334 do 335 .do 1878 . Jan. 2 The Shafter expedition : Mr. de Cuellar's note ; American reports differ from Mexican ; no dam- age to Mexico ; Mr. Vallarta to be furnished un- officially with particulars ...
... Mexican penal code . 534 534 535 334 do 335 .do 1878 . Jan. 2 The Shafter expedition : Mr. de Cuellar's note ; American reports differ from Mexican ; no dam- age to Mexico ; Mr. Vallarta to be furnished un- officially with particulars ...
Page xxxviii
... Mexican publications upon frontier relations : Ex- pedition against Lipans to punish them for dep- redations upon Mexicans ; Kickapoos protected by Mexico ; report of Mr. Escalante , Mexican consul in Arizona , disproves charge that ...
... Mexican publications upon frontier relations : Ex- pedition against Lipans to punish them for dep- redations upon Mexicans ; Kickapoos protected by Mexico ; report of Mr. Escalante , Mexican consul in Arizona , disproves charge that ...
Page xxxix
... Mexican troops to make campaign in Coahuila : Funds deposited to meet expenses ; the Execu tive earnest in movement to suppress Indian depredations ; civil - service officials unpaid for August . 4 Co - operation of alcalde of Las Vacas ...
... Mexican troops to make campaign in Coahuila : Funds deposited to meet expenses ; the Execu tive earnest in movement to suppress Indian depredations ; civil - service officials unpaid for August . 4 Co - operation of alcalde of Las Vacas ...
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Page 317 - Treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII.
Page 322 - The commissioners so named shall meet at Washington 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 322 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any Commissioner, or in the event of any Commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy.
Page xvi - Among the means which have been employed to this end none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards (composed of proper characters) charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page xvi - It will not be doubted, that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent ; and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it, grow up supported by the public purse : And to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Page 36 - SEC. 2. That immediately after the passage of this act, the President shall invite the governments of the countries composing the Latin Union, so-called, and of such other European nations as he may deem advisable, to join the United States in a conference to adopt a common ratio between gold and silver, for the purpose of establishing, internationally, the use of bi-metallic money, and securing fixity of relative value between those metals...
Page 318 - The commissioners so named shall meet in the city of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, at the earliest convenient period after they 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 the matters referred to them to the best of their judgment and according to justice and equity; and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings.
Page 262 - Powers, signed a declaration affirming it to be " an essential principle of the law of nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting parties by means of an amicable arrangement.
Page 394 - ... shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation, as nearly as possible, of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement if the concession shall have been conditional.
Page 285 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.