Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Volume 8

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - United States
 

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Page 459 - Ireland are determined that, so far as may be in their power, it shall be effectually abolished; and whereas it is found expedient, for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the territories and jurisdiction of the two parties respectively, that persons committing the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up...
Page 460 - ... committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 557 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 298 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty -ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island...
Page 199 - ... long as they behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws ; and their goods and effects, of whatever description they may be, whether in their own custody or entrusted to individuals or to the State, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration...
Page 566 - Whenever one of the contracting parties shall be engaged in war with another state, no citizen of the other contracting party shall 'accept a commission, or letter of marque, for the purpose of assisting or co-operating hostilely, with the said enemy, against the said party so at war, under the pain of being treated as a pirate.
Page 480 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 541 - ... be, payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country ; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation of any article...
Page 421 - The commissioners shall keep an accurate record, and correct minutes or notes of all their proceedings, with the dates thereof, and may appoint and employ a secretary, and any other necessary officer or officers to assist them in the transaction of the business which may come before them.
Page 298 - The United States of America and her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...

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