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Page 424 - extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect. 4. "That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and the control of the island to its people.
Page 266 - 24, 1823. DEAR SIR. — The question presented by the letter you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence ; that made us a nation ; this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening
Page 424 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such an extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 279 - will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port for such proceedings against her and her cargo as may be deemed advisable. Neutral vessels lying in any of said ports at the time of the establishment of such blockade, will be allowed thirty days to issue therefrom. In witness whereof I have hereunto set
Page 300 - No person shall, by adding to the number of guns, or by changing those on board for other guns, or by the addition *of an equipment for war, increase the warlike force of any ship which at the time of her being within the dominion of Her Majesty was a ship in the military
Page 284 - authorized officers, all robbery, all pillage or sacking, even after taking a place by main force, all rape, wounding, maiming or killing of such inhabitants are prohibited under the penalty of death or such other severe punishment as may seem adequate for the gravity of the offense.
Page 286 - plain, striking and uniform mark of distinction of their own, can expect no quarter. The use of the enemy's national standard, flag or other emblem of nationality, for the purpose of deceiving the enemy in battle, is an act of perfidy by which they lose all claim to the protection of the laws of war.
Page 288 - Armed prowlers, by whatever names they may be called, or persons of the enemy's territory, who steal within the lines of the hostile army, for the purpose of robbing, killing, or of destroying bridges, roads, or canals, or of robbing or destroying the mail, or of cutting telegraph wires, are not entitled to the privileges of
Page 304 - II. Persons employed by hospitals and ambulances comprising the staff for superintendence, medical service, administration, transport of wounded, as well as chaplains, shall participate in the benefit of neutrality while so employed and so long as there remain any wounded to bring in or to succor.
Page 288 - A spy is a person who secretly, in disguise or under false pretense, seeks information with the intention of communicating it to the enemy. The spy is punishable with death by hanging by the neck, whether or not he succeeds in obtaining the information or in conveying it to the enemy.