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necessity, and allow even traMerchant resort, coming into any of an port of another cambry voluntarily, for the fumpove of lovsful trade, to bring saith her, and keep mer her, to o Eneviderable extent, the jurivelistion_ and authority of the bones of her an- country, excluding to this extent by onsequence, the jurisdiction of local law. A ship, say the

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"This is the doctrine of the low of seations, elearly laid d non by coniters of received authority, and entirely conformable, as it is supposed, with the prootice of modern pations

"If a murder be committed on brand of an American pressel by of the Frow sepion amother, or upon a pavenger, or by a povsenger on

foursonger, of the brew, or another paveugen- while such vessel is lying in a furt within the jurisdiction of or foreign state or Sovereignty, the offence is Ergnizable and punishable by the proper Court of the United States;

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Letter of Daniel Webster, Secretary of Starte, to Lord Ashburton, Aug to 19th 1842.1

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