Report and Resolves in Relation to the North-eastern BoundaryMasschusetts Senate, 1838 - 76 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 13
עמוד 21
... agent in his argument to the com- missioners appointed under the treaty of 1794 , uses this language " The limits of the Province of Nova Scotia at the time of the treaty of peace , were the same that were established , when the ...
... agent in his argument to the com- missioners appointed under the treaty of 1794 , uses this language " The limits of the Province of Nova Scotia at the time of the treaty of peace , were the same that were established , when the ...
עמוד 23
... Agent objects to the eastern branch , not because this north line would cross the river St. John , but because it would cross it within fifty miles of the capital of New Brunswick , and would cut off the sources of the rivers which fall ...
... Agent objects to the eastern branch , not because this north line would cross the river St. John , but because it would cross it within fifty miles of the capital of New Brunswick , and would cut off the sources of the rivers which fall ...
עמוד 25
... demand of Great Britain is an after thought , and is consequently unjust . The whole course of this corres- pondence goes on the ground that the territory in ques- now in the office of the Land Agent of this 1838 . 25 SENATE - No . 67 .
... demand of Great Britain is an after thought , and is consequently unjust . The whole course of this corres- pondence goes on the ground that the territory in ques- now in the office of the Land Agent of this 1838 . 25 SENATE - No . 67 .
עמוד 28
... Agent of this Common- wealth . By the survey it appeared , that , instead of twelve or fifteen hundred thousand acres , the territory in question embraced two millions , nine hundred thousand acres — which , with lands previously bought ...
... Agent of this Common- wealth . By the survey it appeared , that , instead of twelve or fifteen hundred thousand acres , the territory in question embraced two millions , nine hundred thousand acres — which , with lands previously bought ...
עמוד 31
... agent that our territory must of necessity , extend north of the St. John's , and that this stream should be regarded as an Atlantic river . In 1814 , when the very question now before us , was brought distinctly into view , her ...
... agent that our territory must of necessity , extend north of the St. John's , and that this stream should be regarded as an Atlantic river . In 1814 , when the very question now before us , was brought distinctly into view , her ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 40 - 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 Oeean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
עמוד 13 - 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...
עמוד 63 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. 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, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
עמוד 19 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries...
עמוד 37 - 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 northwest angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, has yet been ascertained...
עמוד 40 - Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45. degrees of north latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said River St Lawrence from those which fall into the sea...
עמוד 17 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the territories, islands, and countries in North America, belonging to the crown of Great Britain, bounded on the south by a line from the bay of Chaleurs, along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea...
עמוד 37 - Croix, and designated in the former treaty of peace between the two Powers as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, has yet been ascertained; and whereas that part of the boundary line between the dominions of the two Powers which extends from the source of the river St. Croix directly north to the abovementioned northwest angle of Nova Scotia, thence along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence...
עמוד 38 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
עמוד 21 - Our said Province hath anciently extended, and doth of Right extend as far as the River Pentagouet or Penobscot, it shall be bounded by a line drawn from Cape Sable across the entrance 'of the Bay of Fundy, to the mouth of the River St. Croix, ' by the said River to its source, and by a line drawn due north from ' thence to the Southern Boundary of Our Colony of Quebec.