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... alike just to the natives and equitable to the three powers most concerned in trade and intercourse with the Samoan Islands . The chief justice has been chosen by the King of Sweden and Norway , VI MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT .
... alike just to the natives and equitable to the three powers most concerned in trade and intercourse with the Samoan Islands . The chief justice has been chosen by the King of Sweden and Norway , VI MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT .
Page lv
... islands within a radius of 10 miles . Incloses a draft of a preliminary convention providing for the appointment of such mixed commission , regulations , arbitra- tion , seal - fishery line and a close time for the seal - fisheries ...
... islands within a radius of 10 miles . Incloses a draft of a preliminary convention providing for the appointment of such mixed commission , regulations , arbitra- tion , seal - fishery line and a close time for the seal - fisheries ...
Page lvii
... Islands directly after the mothers are delivered of their young be granted , Behring Sea would swarm with sealing vessels throughout the summer months . The seal mothers , which require an area from 40 to 50 miles from the islands ...
... Islands directly after the mothers are delivered of their young be granted , Behring Sea would swarm with sealing vessels throughout the summer months . The seal mothers , which require an area from 40 to 50 miles from the islands ...
Page lviii
... islands north of the fity - fifth degree of latitude , and have no existence on the continent of America . " If taken literally there was no such thing as " Russian possessions in America . " Gives a review of certain public ...
... islands north of the fity - fifth degree of latitude , and have no existence on the continent of America . " If taken literally there was no such thing as " Russian possessions in America . " Gives a review of certain public ...
Page lx
... islands belonging to Russia within less than 100 Italian miles . Pro- test of John Quincy Adams , February 25 , 1822 , against the said ukage , and his correspondence with the Russian minister at Washington on the subject . The attempt ...
... islands belonging to Russia within less than 100 Italian miles . Pro- test of John Quincy Adams , February 25 , 1822 , against the said ukage , and his correspondence with the Russian minister at Washington on the subject . The attempt ...
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Page 438 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 438 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 222 - If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill-treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection, and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treatv.
Page 496 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Page 440 - Art. 3.—The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties upon the coast of the Continent, and the islands of America to the north-west...
Page 342 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties -which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Page 298 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject...
Page 539 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 485 - Meridian); and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said Meridian Line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British Possessions on the Continent of America to the North-West.
Page 479 - ... present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have 'to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country ; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.