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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... referred ; - HAVE , pursuant to the Order of the House , examined ' the Matter to them referred ; and have agreed to the fol- lowing REPORT . YOUR committee have thought it their duty , in the first place , to inquire into the situation ...
... referred ; - HAVE , pursuant to the Order of the House , examined ' the Matter to them referred ; and have agreed to the fol- lowing REPORT . YOUR committee have thought it their duty , in the first place , to inquire into the situation ...
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American bottoms American Intercourse Bill American vessels appears Appendix Baring's Examination Bay of Fundy belong boundary Britain Britannick majesty British colonies British ships British vessels British West India Brunswick Campo-Bello Island Canada cargo carried claim claimant colonial system commerce commissioners consequence continued court Croix custom-house dominions duties Ebenezer Lock expence exports Falmouth fish fisheries foreign clearance freight fugar Great-Britain hemp imported Indies inhabitants Jamaica King's land late Lord lumber merchants ministers Missisippi Moose-Island mother country mouth nations naval Navigation Act navigation and colonial neutral ships Newfoundland northwest company Nova Scotia parliament parties passage Passamaquoddy Bay Plaister of Paris planters ports present principle produce Province of Nova-Scotia provisions respect river St Saint Croix Shipping Interest shore sloop Snug Cove statute supply territories thence timber tion tonnage tons trade treaty of 1794 Treaty of Amity Treaty of Peace United waters Weft West India islands whilst
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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.
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| Title | 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 ... Volume 29583 of CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series Core collection Foreign relations of the US Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy U.S. treaties and agreements library |
| Author | Nathaniel Atcheson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J. Butterworth, 1808 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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