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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Pàgina 24 - States having common-law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk, two years, at least, prior to his admission, that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Pàgina 402 - That line shall be alone established upon which the commissioners may fix, their consent, in this particular, being considered decisive, and an integral part of this treaty, without necessity of ulterior ratification or approval, and without room for interpretation of any kind by either of the parties contracting.
Pàgina 187 - I have the honor to inclose for your information a copy of a...
Pàgina 83 - ... and if neither the common law, nor the law of equity or admiralty, nor the statutes of the United States, furnish appropriate and sufficient remedies, the Ministers in those, countries, respectively, shall, by decrees and regulations which shall have the force of law, supply such defects and deficiencies.
Pàgina 174 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction.
Pàgina 45 - ... proving by an exhibition of the registers of the vessel's or ship's roll, or other public documents, that those men were part of the said crews : and on this demand, so. proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,) the delivery shall not be refused.
Pàgina 407 - This treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional methods, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in Washington as soon as possible. In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective powers have signed this Treaty in duplicate in the English and Chinese languages and have affixed our respective seals.
Pàgina xx - The near future will demonstrate whether the indispensable condition of a righteous peace, just alike to the Cubans and to Spain, as well as equitable to all our interests so intimately involved in the welfare of Cuba, is likely to be attained. If not, the exigency of further and other action by the United States will remain to be taken.
Pàgina 203 - The undersigned has the honor to ask the good offices of His Excellency, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Mr. Frederic Courtland Penfield, to convey the foregoing by telegram to the attention of the Washington Cabinet; he avails himself, etc.
Pàgina xvii - ... vessels of the United States, to detention and to possible seizure ; it would give rise to countless vexatious questions, would release the parent government from responsibility for acts done by the insurgents...

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