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1841 For services 2d quarter 4th quarter Advanced him pursuant amount advanced annuity beacons Blank buoys burners cents Choctaw clerk coast collector command copy court D. D. Mitchell Department disbursements district docket dwelling-house East half employed expenses February February 24 fees feet Fixed light folio Fulfilling treaty furnished half of northeast harbor honor inches Isaac Babbitt island James John Jones July July 21 June keeper Keeper's house lamps lantern leaky ledge light-house MANUEL MICHELTORENA March Mexico Monterey Navy northeast qr northwest obedient servant Pacific Squadron paid paper pursuant to treaty quarter of 1842 quarter of north quarto post quire ream received reflectors repairs respectfully rock roof roof shingled Sacs and Foxes Sandy Hook Secretary Sept services as blacksmith ship soapstone Southeast quarter southwest squadron sub-agent sup't superintendent tion tower Treasury treaty stipulations undersigned United vessels WALTER FORWARD West half west quarter William
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Página 1 - Jlnd be it resolved, That the governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States, to Louis Kossuth, and to each of our senators and representatives in Congress.
Página 3 - Resolved, That his excellency the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress...
Página 7 - Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana...
Página 8 - American vessels in time of peace. The right of search, except when specially conceded by Treaty, is a purely belligerent right, and can have no existence on the high seas during peace. The Undersigned apprehends, however, that the right of search is not confined to the verification of the nationality of the vessel, but also extends to the object of the voyage, and the nature of the cargo.
Página 14 - Nations are bound to maintain respectable tribunals, to which the subjects of states at peace may have recourse for the redress of injuries and the maintenance of their rights. If the character of these tribunals be respectable, impartial, and independent, their decisions are to be regarded as conclusive. The United States have carried the principle of acquiescence, in such cases, as far as any nation upon earth, and in respect to the decisions of Spanish tribunals quite as frequently, perhaps, as...
Página 2 - The universal law sanctions and the common good requires the existence of such a rule. The right under such circumstances not only to visit and detain but to search a ship is a perfect right and involves neither responsibility nor indemnity. But, with this single exception, no nation has in time of peace any authority to detain the ships of another upon the high seas on any pretext whatever beyond the limits of her territorial jurisdiction.
Página 5 - I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of the correspondence requested by their resolution of the I3th instant.
Página 1 - All Ships and merchandise of what nature soever which shall be rescued out of the hands of any Pirates or Robbers on the high seas shall be brought into some Port of either State and shall be delivered to the custody of the Officers of that Port in order to be taken care of and restored entire to the true proprietor as soon as due and sufficient proof shall be made concerning the property thereof.