American Encroachments on British Rights: Or, Observations on the Importance of the British North American Colonies and on the Late Treaties with the United States: with Ramarks on Mr. Baring's Examination; and a Defence of the Shipping Interest from the Charge of Having Attempted to Impose on Parliament...J. Butterworth, 1808 - 250 pages |
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... fisheries Exports from the British colonies to the West Indies Statement of the enormous increase of American tonnage since 1784 ci cii CV cvi 1 cvii On the importance of the maritime rights of Great Britain viii CONTENTS .
... fisheries Exports from the British colonies to the West Indies Statement of the enormous increase of American tonnage since 1784 ci cii CV cvi 1 cvii On the importance of the maritime rights of Great Britain viii CONTENTS .
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... tonnage duty equal to that which shall be imposed by the other party . The second is a substitution of a new clause for the reservation formerly made by Great Britain of " the right of imposing on American vessels entering into British ...
... tonnage duty equal to that which shall be imposed by the other party . The second is a substitution of a new clause for the reservation formerly made by Great Britain of " the right of imposing on American vessels entering into British ...
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... tonnage duty upon entering the inland ports , as they do upon entry at their maritime ports , and the difference between British and American bottoms , though a trifling object , denotes their fiscal exactness ; for it certainly was not ...
... tonnage duty upon entering the inland ports , as they do upon entry at their maritime ports , and the difference between British and American bottoms , though a trifling object , denotes their fiscal exactness ; for it certainly was not ...
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... tonnage could not be obtained ; and it is the opinion of many persons well acquainted with the trade , that with common industry two voyages may be made in a year from Quebec to any part of Great Britain and Ireland , though it may be ...
... tonnage could not be obtained ; and it is the opinion of many persons well acquainted with the trade , that with common industry two voyages may be made in a year from Quebec to any part of Great Britain and Ireland , though it may be ...
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... tonnage and other island duties im- posed on British ships resorting there , but from which it is stated American shipping have in many instances been exempted , † particularly those American vessels in which are imported articles ...
... tonnage and other island duties im- posed on British ships resorting there , but from which it is stated American shipping have in many instances been exempted , † particularly those American vessels in which are imported articles ...
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American bottoms American Intercourse Bill American vessels average Baring's Examination Bay of Fundy belong boundary Britain Britannick majesty British colonies British ships British vessels British West India Brunswick Canada cargo carried claim claimant colonial system commerce commissioners considerable Croix custom-house dominions duty Ebenezer Lock eftates eſtates expence exports Falmouth fish fisheries freight ftate fugar Great-Britain imported increase Indies inhabitants iſlands Jamaica land late laws Lord lumber Majesty's majesty's government merchants ministers Moose-Island mouth nations naval Navigation Act navigation and colonial negroes neutral ships Newfoundland Nova Scotia parties Passamaquoddy Passamaquoddy Bay plaister Plaister of Paris plantations planters ports present produce Province of Nova-Scotia provisions quantity respect river St Saint Croix Shipping Interest shore Sloop Snug Cove statute subjects sugar supply territories thence theſe thoſe timber tion tonnage tons trade treaty of amity Treaty of Peace United waters Weft Weſt West India islands
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Page 247 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 66 - Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 66 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also, that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use ; (but not to dry or cure the same on that island ;) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks, of all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 66 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 65 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 65 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page cxvi - America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony...
Page 65 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 66 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 68 - The solemn ratifications of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall be exchanged between the contracting parties, in the space of six months, or sooner if possible, to be computed from the day of the signature of the present treaty.