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Page 482 - proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States in the same form from the
Page 360 - have been declared, and which said dividend shall be paid, shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted while they shall respectively continue in office; provided always that if any of such
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Page 227 - 1st. That free ships make free goods ; that is to say, that the effects or merchandise belonging to a power or nation at war, or to its citizens or subjects, are free from capture and confiscation when found on board of neutral vessels, with the exception of articles contraband of war. ARTICLE
Page 251 - the soil more and more an object of public patronage. * * * Among the means which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement,
Page 69 - have the same rights, liens, and remedies for the recovery of his wages, which by the act or by any law or custom any seaman had," must overrule the former of these objections. He thought the opinion reported to have been expressed by Dr. Lushington last week, in the case of the Janet Wilson, showed that
Page 482 - President of the United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer. Now, therefore, I, James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United
Page 37 - heresy, and here is his famous announcement:—"The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and maintain than the old one.
Page 482 - the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United Slates are and shall be suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of
Page 482 - act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,' and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," it is provided that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States by the government of any foreign