UNDER ARTICLE I OF THE TREATY CONCLUDED AT WASHINGTON ON THE 8TH MAY, 1871, BETWEEN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY

AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Vessels to which the claims of the United States relate....

General character of the evidence adduced by the United States......

Opinions of contemporary writers quoted by the United States....

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PART II.

ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON NEUTRAL DUTIES.

Propositions affirmed by the United States.....

Effect ascribed to British laws and regulations as interpretations of

international law.....

Alleged duty of a government to enforce its own laws and regulations

Extent of neutral obligations as deduced from the three rules of the

treaty of Washington, and from general principles of international

law.....

(...) Original equipment, &c., of belligerent vessels in neutral

ports...

(B.) Admission of belligerent vessels into neutral ports..

First limitation suggested by the United States..

Further liinitation suggested by the United States...

What is “due diligence"..

PART III.

PRECEDENTS APPEALED TO BY TIE INITED STATES.

1. Case of the Swedish ships, 1825...

2. Violations of American Dentrality in 1793–94.

Decisions of the cominissioners under the Seventh Article of the

Treaty of 1794..

Case of the Cassius...

3. Violations of American neutrality during the war carried on by

Spain and Portugal against the Spanish-American Colonies...

Correspondence between the United States and Portugal.
Correspondence between the United States and Spain.

4. Later violations of the American nentrality laws

Expeditions of Lopez against Cuba, 1850–51..

Walker's expeditions against Mexico and Central America, 1853,

1053, 1857, 1838, 1859, and 1860...

Fenian raids against Canada..

Raid of 1-66....

Second rail on Canada, 1870.

Raid of 1-71....

Bilitary expeditions in aid of the Cuban insurrection.......

Recapitulation

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VARIOUS COMPLAINTS OPTIE UNITED STATES AGAINST GREAT BRITAX.-TRAFFIC IX

MUNITIONS OF WAR, (PAGE 48.)

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Arins and military supplies purchased by the United States...

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Arms and military supplies purchased by the Confederate States

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Blockade-running and the Nassau trade...

False importance ascribed to the proclamation of neutrality.

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Knowledge of facts imputed to the British government.

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Restrictions on coaling at Nassau .

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Orders of the 31st January, 1862, in relation to Nassail..

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TILE CLARENCE, TICONY, ARCIIER, TUSCALOOSA, TALLAHASSEE, CHICKAMAUGA, AND

RETRIBUTIOX.

The Clarence, Tacony, Archer, and Tuscaloosa.

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The Tallahassee..

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The Chickamauga...

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The Retribution...

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* PART IX.

RECEITION OF CONFEDERATE CRUISERS IX BRITISII PORTS,

The Sumter and Nashville

Execution of the rules of January 31, 1862, at Nassau .

The Florida at Nassau ...

Execution of the rules of January 31, 1862, in other colonies

The Florida at Barbados ...

United States vessels at Barbados

The Florida at Bermuda ..

The Chickamauga at Bermuda .

United States vessels at Bermuda

The Alabama at Jamaica

The Alabama, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa at the Cape of Good Hope.

United States vessels at the Cape of Good Hope..

Recapitulation

Course pursued by other countries..

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