...Mississippi. t' The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." (Art. 8 of y: Treaty of 3 Sept. 1783, 8 Stat. at Large, 83.) " The river Mississippi shall, however,...

...Mississippi. " The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States/' (Art. 8 of Treaty of 3 Sept. 1783, 8 Stat. at Large, 83.) " The river Mississippi shall, however, according...

...whom they belong. Artiele 8th. The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its wrarce to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. Artiele 10th. The solemn ratification of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall...

...provided that the navigation of the Mississippi River, from its source to the ocean, shall, forever, remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United Slates. In conformity with the ninth article of confederation, Congress issued a proclamation, prohibiting...

...courses to the sea equal in convenience to those used for navigation by its own subjects. CLXIX. But on no occasion were the principles of this branch...treaties of 1763 and 1783, and also upon the general principles of International Law. They insisted that by this law a river was open to all riparian inhabitants,...

...Although the treaty of 1786 provided expressly that the navigation of the Mississippi should forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States, yet, with the exclusive policy characteristic of the Spanish nation, the claim of the United States...

...was stipulated, that the navigation of the river, from its source to the ocean, should forever remain open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. Great Britain has other means of access to her colonial possessions in America, and makes little if...

...the rivers Mississippi and St. VOL. V.— 34 Lawrence from their sources to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. ARTICLE IX. The prisoners made respectively by the arms of his Britannic Majesty and the United States,...

...63, 117-119. 3 Executed November 30, 1788. August 22, 1785. Secret Journals, III. 338. ocean, should for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. 1 When the treaty came to be ratified and published, in 1784, the Spanish government was already acquainted...

...Sept. l78a),14 "that the navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, should for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great...Britain and the citizens of the United States." " The subsequent acquisition," writes Wheaton, " of Louisiana and Florida by the United States having included...