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Abstract of suspended Accident advertised Appointed appropriation assigned for failure Cause of suspension certified claims channel Charles Chas Chief of Engineers Class clerk coast Columbia Commission Commissioner Committee Corps of Engineers cost Creek day adver Department Dist E.SE estimate etc.-Continued Fault of register feet Final hd five publications George George W harbor act Henry herewith Ignorance Island James January January 16 John Joseph July 11 June 30 Kans Land Office Lots Maryland messengers miles Names of parties navigation Nebr Nine and cir Ohio Pacific Ocean Pennsylvania preliminary examination Reasons assigned REDFIELD PROCTOR Residence respectfully river and harbor Russia salary Secretary Secretary of War Sept September 19 shoals Special Stationery suspended cases adjudicated Thomas Twenty-five Twenty-four ukase United vertised WAR DEPARTMENT Washington William Woodward & Lothrop World's Columbian Exposition worthy of improvement York
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Page 49 - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Page 2 - Urup, viz., to the 45° 50' northern latitude, is exclusively granted to Russian subjects. SKC. 2. — It is therefore prohibited to all foreign vessels not only to land on the coasts and islands belonging to Russia as stated above, but also to approach them within less than a hundred Italian miles. The transgressor's vessel is subject to confiscation along with the whole cargo.
Page 29 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers...
Page 50 - ... or by accident to take shelter in a port of the other, shall be at liberty to refit therein, to procure all necessary...
Page 48 - ARTICLE II. With a view of preventing the rights of navigation and of fishing exercised upon the Great Ocean by the citizens and subjects of the high contracting Powers from becoming the pretext for an illicit trade, it is agreed that the citizens of the United States shall not resort to any point where there is a Russian establishment, without the permission of the governor or commander ; and that, reciprocally, the subjects of Russia shall not resort, without permission, to any establishment of...
Page 32 - North latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of West longitude (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the North along the Channel called Portland Channel, as far as the Point of the Continent where it strikes the 56th degree of North latitude...
Page 29 - ... the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, 'being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Page 3 - Possessions form the limits, comprehends all the conditions which are ordinarily attached to shut seas (Mers fermees), and the Russian Government might consequently judge itself authorized to exercise upon this Sea, the right of Sovereignty, and especially that of entirely interdicting the entrance of Foreigners. But it preferred only asserting its essential rights, without taking any advantage of localities.
Page 35 - Meridian); and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said Meridian Line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British Possessions on the Continent of America to the North-West.
Page 49 - With reference to the line of demarcation laid down in the preceding article, it is understood — " 1st. That the island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia," (now, by this cession, to the United States.) " 2d. That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the...