Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, Volume 2, Part 1

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George Pierce Garrison
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Texas
 

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Page 318 - Sea: all the Islands in the Sabine and the Said Red and Arkansas Rivers, throughout the Course thus described, to belong to the United States; but the use of the Waters and the navigation of the Sabine to the Sea, and of the said Rivers, Roxo and Arkansas, throughout the extent of the said Boundary, on their respective Banks, shall be common to the respective inhabitants of both Nations.
Page 100 - January 23, 1919, as the same appears on file and of record in this office. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the great seal of the State of Missouri. Done at the city of Jefferson, this 10th day of December, AD 1919.
Page 141 - It was a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to tho means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that, the means follow the end . Thus a right to navigate a river draws to it a right to moor vessels to its shores, to land on them in cases of distress, or for other necessary purposes, &c.
Page 597 - ... beginning at the mouth of the Sabine river, and running west along the Gulf of Mexico three leagues from land, to the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to its source, thence due north to the forty-second degree of north latitude, thence along the boundary line as defined in the treaty between the United States and Spain, to the beginning...
Page 81 - It is likewise agreed that the two contracting parties shall, by all the means in their power, maintain peace and harmony among the several Indian nations who inhabit the lands adjacent to the lines and rivers which form the boundaries of the two countries...
Page 414 - Said State, when admitted into the Union, after ceding to the United States all public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports, and harbors, navy and navy-yards, docks, magazines, arms, armaments, and all other property and means pertaining to the public defence belonging to said Republic of Texas...
Page 715 - Hon JAMES S. MAYFIELD Secretary of State SIR : I have the honor to hand you herewith, a copy of the correspondence which has recently passed between Her Britanic Majesty's Minister at Mexico, and myself, relative to the objects of my late mission to that country, and from which you will...
Page 318 - Nachitoches, or Red River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London...
Page 320 - In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals this twenty-third day of December in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.
Page 136 - The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to inform Mr.

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