Maine in the Northeastern Boundary ControversyState, 1919 - 398 páginas |
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¹Resolves of Maine 25th Congress action adopted agreement American angle of Nova appointed arbitration Aroostook assent August authority Bay of Fundy boundary controversy boundary line boundary matters Britain British agent British government British minister Brunswick Canada Chipman Colonel Barclay committee consideration conventional line Correspondence Croix commission Croix River Daveis decision disputed territory documents due north line expressed Governor Fairfield highlands islands John Baker jurisdiction king land Lawrence Legislature of Maine letter Library lieutenant governor Lord Ashburton Lord Palmerston Madawaska Maine commissioners Maine Historical Society Maine's Massachusetts ment Mitchell's map Moose Island negotiations Netherlands Northeastern Boundary northwest angle Nova Scotia opinion Papers parties Passamaquoddy Bay peace Penobscot possession Preble president proceedings proposed province question received reference reply Resolves river St secretary Senate settlement survey surveyors Third Session Thomas Barclay tion treaty of 1783 treaty of Ghent United Ward Chipman Washington Webster William
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Página 83 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Página 29 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 29 - 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...
Página 7 - York, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the main land of New England, beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to New Scotland in America...
Página 93 - Whereas neither that point of the Highlands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in the former Treaty of Peace between the two Powers as the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, nor the...
Página 94 - And in the event of the said two Commissioners differing or both or either of them refusing, declining or wilfully omitting to act such reports, declarations or statements shall be made by them or either of them and such reference to a friendly Sovereign or State shall be made in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth Article is contained and in as full a manner as if the same was herein repeated.
Página 63 - And the three commissioners so appointed, shall be sworn, impartially to examine and decide the said question, according to such evidence as shall respectively be laid before them on the part of the British government and of the United States.
Página 93 - Croix to the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked, according to the said provisions. The said commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the north-west angle of Nova ScOtia, of the north-westernmost head of Connecticut river, and of such other points of the said boundary, as they may deem proper.
Página 90 - Senate thereof, and the said two commissioners so appointed shall be sworn impartially to examine and decide upon the said claims according to such evidence as shall be laid before them on the part of His Britannic Majesty and of the United States respectively.
Página 77 - ... have not even cleared your own territory on the point of attack. You cannot on any principle of equality in negotiation claim a cession of territory excepting in exchange for other advantages which you have in your power. . . . Then if this reasoning be true, why stipulate for the uti possidetis? You can get no territory; indeed, the state of your military operations, however creditable, does not entitle you to demand any.