The Establishment of the First Southern Boundary of the U.S...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - 2 pages |
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The Establishment of the First Southern Boundary of the U. S Burke Aaron Hinsdale No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 348 - His Catholic Majesty will permit the citizens of the United States, for the space of three years from this time, to deposit their merchandise and effects in the port of New Orleans, and to export them from thence without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the stores ; and his Majesty promises either to continue this permission, if he finds, during that time, that it is not prejudicial...
Page 361 - Majesty has likewise agreed that the navigation of the said River in its whole breadth from its source to the Ocean shall be free only to his Subjects, and the Citizens of the United States, unless he should extend this privilege to the Subjects of other Powers by special convention.
Page 343 - ... versa. When the settlements are stronger and more extended to the westward, the navigation of the Mississippi will be an object of importance, and we shall then be able, reserving our claims, to speak a more efficacious language, than policy, I think, dictates at present.* * In writing on this subject to M.
Page 342 - Your remonstrants, therefore, conceive, that the negotiations have been unnecessarily lengthy, and they expect, that it be demanded, categorically, of the Spanish King, whether he will acknowledge the right of the citizens of the United States, to the free and uninterrupted navigation of the river Mississippi, and cause all obstructions...
Page 340 - It is hereby understood and agreed, that in case Great Britain, at the conclusion of the present war, shall recover or be put in possession of West Florida, the line of north boundary between the said Province and the United States shall be a line drawn from the mouth of the river Yazoo, where it unites with the Mississippi, due east, to the river Apalachicola.
Page 343 - There is nothing which binds one country or one State to another but interest. Without this cement the western inhabitants, who more than probably will be composed in a great degree of foreigners, can have no predilection for us, and a commercial connexion is the only tie we can have upon them.
Page 343 - Kenhawa if not to the Falls, may be brought to the Atlantic ports easier and cheaper, taking the whole voyage together, than it can be carried to New Orleans; but, once open the door to the latter before the obstructions are removed from the former, let commercial...
Page 358 - The inhabitants of the government aforesaid, above the thirtyfirst degree of north latitude, are not to be embodied as militia or called upon to aid in any military operation, except in case of an Indian invasion or for the suppression of riots during the present state of uncertainty, owing to the late treaty between His Catholic Majesty and the United States not being fully carried into effect.
Page 358 - ... of this Government on any pretext whatever, and notwithstanding the operation of the law aforesaid is hereby admitted, yet the inhabitants shall be considered to be in an actual state of neutrality during the continuance of their uncertainty, as mentioned in the second proposition.
Page 349 - Mexico, with six maps comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, imd part of East Florida.