| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 498 pages
...to a common occupancy о the country, for the purposes of hunting and traffic with the natives. That the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States have an equal right, unti these treaties are abrogated or annulled, to hunt in the country as they... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1834 - 646 pages
...1,) " the navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain five and open to the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States." Whatsoever right his catholic majesty had to interdict the free navigation of the Mississippi to any... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Public Lands - Canada - 1838 - 102 pages
...Article VIII. "The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." — We all know that the Mississippi flows in the gulf of Mexico, but in the treaty it is said to flow... | |
| Joseph M. White - Colonies - 1839 - 762 pages
...Great Britain, "the navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." Whatsoever right his catholic majesty had to interdict the free navigation of the Mississippi to any... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and persons to whom they belong. ART. 8. The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its...Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States. ART. 9. In case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging to Great Britain or to the... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 384 pages
...to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and persons to whom they belong. ART. 8. The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its...the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of (lie United States. • ART. 9. In case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging to... | |
| Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 324 pages
...declared, that, " The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States." At that time Spain owned Louisiana and both banks of the river from its mouths up to the 31st degree... | |
| Epes Sargent - Cabinet officers - 1844 - 86 pages
...right to the navigation of the River Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, should remain for ever free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. The same mutual right of navigation was recognized by Mr. Jay's treaty of 1794. When the American Commissioners... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...United States. The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean was for ever to remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States equally. Franklin, Jay, and all the American commissioners had sternly opposed any compensation to... | |
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