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Page xxii
... customs receipts ; and of the suspension of specie payments upon national industry : conclusions based upon present indus- trial and commercial conditions ; that customs- dues should be collected in the best and least variable standard ...
... customs receipts ; and of the suspension of specie payments upon national industry : conclusions based upon present indus- trial and commercial conditions ; that customs- dues should be collected in the best and least variable standard ...
Page xxiii
... customs receipts ; debt bear- ing silver interest chiefly held abroad : views of Baron von Hoffman ; gold ultimately to be the standard : the present relationship susceptible of establishment by international agreement : without such ...
... customs receipts ; debt bear- ing silver interest chiefly held abroad : views of Baron von Hoffman ; gold ultimately to be the standard : the present relationship susceptible of establishment by international agreement : without such ...
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... customs duties upon tour- ists ' effects . 184 132 Mr. Noyes to Mr. Evarts . Oct. 11 133 ...... do 134 135 ... do ..do Oct. 17 Oct. 25 Nov. 14 Additional list of contributors to yellow - fever fund . $ 4,000 additional for yellow ...
... customs duties upon tour- ists ' effects . 184 132 Mr. Noyes to Mr. Evarts . Oct. 11 133 ...... do 134 135 ... do ..do Oct. 17 Oct. 25 Nov. 14 Additional list of contributors to yellow - fever fund . $ 4,000 additional for yellow ...
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... customs duty imposed to raise revenue ; that it affects the commerce of all nations trading with Hayti alike ; and that its imposition is within the na- tional competency . 406 408 409 409 411 412 414 415 416 264 .do Dec. 22 The ...
... customs duty imposed to raise revenue ; that it affects the commerce of all nations trading with Hayti alike ; and that its imposition is within the na- tional competency . 406 408 409 409 411 412 414 415 416 264 .do Dec. 22 The ...
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... customs authorities thought to be implicated ; the punishment of offenders to be taken as measure of Mexico's ability to enforce law and protect life and prop- erty on frontier . Mr. Foster to Mr. Evarts .... Sept. 19 Frontier question ...
... customs authorities thought to be implicated ; the punishment of offenders to be taken as measure of Mexico's ability to enforce law and protect life and prop- erty on frontier . Mr. Foster to Mr. Evarts .... Sept. 19 Frontier question ...
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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.