 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 854 pages
...the navigation of the Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain and be free to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United Stales. By the preliminary articles of the treaty concluded between Spain and England, and the definitive... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 446 pages
...Mississippi. t' 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." (Art. 8 of y: Treaty of 3 Sept. 1783, 8 Stat. at Large, 83.) " The river Mississippi shall, however,... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...Mississippi. " 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/' (Art. 8 of Treaty of 3 Sept. 1783, 8 Stat. at Large, 83.) " The river Mississippi shall, however, according... | |
 | Epes Sargent - History - 1852 - 498 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 recognised by Mr. Jay's treaty of 1794. When the American commissioners... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1853 - 698 pages
...persons to whom they belong. Artiele 8th. The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its wrarce to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. Artiele 10th. The solemn ratification of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall... | |
 | James Gettys McGready Ramsey - Franklin (State) - 1853 - 778 pages
...provided that the navigation of the Mississippi River, from its source to the ocean, shall, forever, remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United Slates. In conformity with the ninth article of confederation, Congress issued a proclamation, prohibiting... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 406 pages
...of 1783; and by the eighth article it was provided, that « the navigation of the river Mississippi shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." Tho United States therefore resisted the claim of Spain, taking their stand upon these articles in... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...of 1783; and by the eighth article it was provided, that " the navigation of the river Mississippi shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." The United States therefore resisted the claim of Spain, taking their stand upon these articles in... | |
 | Mississippi. State Geologist, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes - History - 1854 - 432 pages
...Although the treaty of 1786 provided expressly that the navigation of the Mississippi should forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States, yet, with the exclusive policy characteristic of the Spanish nation, the claim of the United States... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...was stipulated, that the navigation of the river, from its source to the ocean, should forever remain open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. Great Britain has other means of access to her colonial possessions in America, and makes little if... | |
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The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. 
