Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the State of Maine, in Relation to the North-eastern Boundary of the State, Issue 2 |
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... give no assent to injustice , there has been a steady view to your contemplated consultations and probable com mands . It was an arrest which the testimony seems to me to condemn ; yet it cannot but be hoped that the neighboring ...
... give no assent to injustice , there has been a steady view to your contemplated consultations and probable com mands . It was an arrest which the testimony seems to me to condemn ; yet it cannot but be hoped that the neighboring ...
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... give to the British arms a momentary possession of other parts of the territory of the United States , such events would not alter their views with regard to the terms of peace to which they would give their consent . " The undersigned ...
... give to the British arms a momentary possession of other parts of the territory of the United States , such events would not alter their views with regard to the terms of peace to which they would give their consent . " The undersigned ...
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... disposition to give an equivalent , if it would be received , and when they were as often and peremptorily denied , on the ground of total want of authority to cede , that it was the intention of the commissioners to do any 35.
... disposition to give an equivalent , if it would be received , and when they were as often and peremptorily denied , on the ground of total want of authority to cede , that it was the intention of the commissioners to do any 35.
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... give to the general government any power by which they might be de- stroyed and consolidated , or by which even their rights of sovereignty and jurisdiction might be abridged . It has never been pretended that Congress has the power of ...
... give to the general government any power by which they might be de- stroyed and consolidated , or by which even their rights of sovereignty and jurisdiction might be abridged . It has never been pretended that Congress has the power of ...
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... give an equivalent , but we want it , and we will have it . The State of Massachusetts considering her right of sove- reignty and jurisdiction co - extensive with her title , did not an- ticipate any disturbance or intrusion , and did ...
... give an equivalent , but we want it , and we will have it . The State of Massachusetts considering her right of sove- reignty and jurisdiction co - extensive with her title , did not an- ticipate any disturbance or intrusion , and did ...
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Acadie acts aforesaid agent American Commissioners angle of Nova argument Aroostook Atlantic Ocean authority bay of Chaleurs bay of Fundy boundary line Britain British Commissioners British Government Brunswick Canada Cape Breton Cape Sable ceded cession citizens claim coast commonly called communication Connecticut river copies dispute divide the rivers drawn due north eastern boundary ENOCH LINCOLN exercise fifth article Governor of Maine hereby highlands which divide Islands JOHN RUGGLES jurisdiction lake lands latitude Lawrence Legislature letter dated Ghent line drawn due Lord the King lying Madawaska Majesty maps Massachusetts Bay ment mouth Northeastern boundary northward northwest angle Nova Scotia Penobscot President Province of New-Brunswick province of Nova province of Quebec Resolved respect river Saint Croix river St rivers that empty Secretary settlement Sir William Alexander sovereignty survey territory thence thereof tion treaty of 1783 treaty of Ghent treaty of peace truly intended undersigned United western
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Page 9 - 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...
Page 9 - ... 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 ; thence, down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 9 - ... 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 Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Page 57 - Higansets, abutting upon .the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river; together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 17 - Whereas doubts have arisen what river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioned in the said treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described...
Page 58 - ... for and during our will and pleasure, as by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear...
Page 5 - The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador Coast by the River St. John, and from thence by a Line drawn from the Head of that River through the Lake St.
Page 8 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 59 - 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...