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Page 106 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 255 - Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries. 13 Ferries between a Province and any British or Foreign Country or between Two Provinces.
Page 517 - The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the French...
Page 70 - China open to foreign commerce, it is further agreed that, in case at any time hereafter China should be at war with any foreign nation whatever, and should for that cause exclude such nation from entering her ports, still the vessels of the United States shall not the less continue to pursue their commerce in freedom and security, and to transport goods to and from the ports of the belligerent powers...
Page 23 - ... persons who would be authorized to marry if residing in the District of Columbia...
Page 232 - States which is not by treaty stipulation with the Government from whose shores it proceeds, or by prohibition in its charter or otherwise to the satisfaction of this Government, prohibited from consolidating or amalgamating with any other cable telegraph line or combining therewith for the purpose of regulating and maintaining the cost of telegraphing.
Page 199 - States, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State...
Page 199 - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 49 - States lawfully engaged in commerce, shall be permitted to import from their own or any other ports into China, and sell there, and purchase therein, and export to their own or any other ports, all manner of merchandise, of which the importation or exportation is not prohibited by this treaty ; paying the duties which are prescribed by the tariff hereinbefore established, and no other charges whatsoever.
Page xxiii - This Government has more than once been called upon of late to take action in fulfillment of its international obligations toward Spain. Agitation in the island of Cuba hostile to the Spanish crown having been fomented by persons abusing the sacred rights of hospitality which our territory affords, the officers of this Government have been instructed to exercise vigilance to prevent infractions of our neutrality laws at Key West and at other points near the Cuban coast. I am happy to say that in...