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" the high seas sailing from " the port of her departure

Foreign Flag render

" under

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" the Offenders liable to be

" tried here!" A strict construer

mordered the leaptain

brew, it

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of

aud

the opinion

my predecessor in

office that the crime

no

on

the

tion of the text writers international law would conclude

this

in

ponit, for they a gree. stating that crimes

committed

under

a

a

Flag

ship sailing

are justiciable

only by the station which represented by such

Flag,

and I have

reason

to believe that in the

Care

of the Albert" a

French Ship whose propengore.

murders d

vas

ble here. But cognizable.

point is, I am

informed agani likely to

ari

se

in the case

Robert Bowne".

of the

an American

Ship taking chineses to Calix

- formin; the Chinese murdered the lain and most of

Caplain

the brow ; possessed them. - selves of the vessel, changed her course, and

having

plundered, abandoned her. The

eAmerican Commódax

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