This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...that a ship sailed from New York for this purpose, and upon her departure Mr. Charles Bagot, on November 26, 1817, remonstrated on the theory that the country adjacent to the Columbia was a British posses Von Hoist Constitutional and Political History, vol. iii., p. 35. sion. But Bathurst did not sustain Bagot in his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...that a ship sailed from New York for this purpose, and upon her departure Mr. Charles Bagot, on November 26, 1817, remonstrated on the theory that the country adjacent to the Columbia was a British posses Von Hoist Constitutional and Political History, vol. iii., p. 35. sion. But Bathurst did not sustain Bagot in his contention, ! and on October 6,1818, Astoria was surrendered to the American commissioners.! Meanwhile a temporary arrangement had been made at London regarding the actual ownership. In 1818 the American commissioners proposed that the northern boundary consist of a line due north or due south from the most northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods to the 49th parallel, and thence due west to the Pacific, stipulating, however, that west of the Rocky Mountains the citizens of each nation should enjoy the navigation of all rivers, and the free use of all the ports and harbors within the territory of the other. The boundary as suggested was acceptable to Great Britain, as far as the Rocky Mountains, but west of them she insisted that the territory lying between the 45th and 49th parallels should be jointly occupied. The matter was compromised on October 20, 1818, by accepting the line suggested by the Americans to the Rocky Mountains, west of which the country claimed or possessed by either was to be jointly occupied for ten years. The commercial convention of July 3,1815, was American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iv., p. 852. t Rush to Adams, February 14, 1818, ibid, p. 853: "Lord Castlereagh admitted, in the most ample extent, our right to be reinstated, and to be the party in possession while treating of the title." t Prevost to Adams, November 11, 1818, ibid, pp. 854-855. Statutcs-at-Large, vol. vii., p. 249. 170 THE TITLE ...
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