The Meade Claim Growing Out of the Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Spain: A Brief Survey of Facts Attending the Ratification by Spain of the Treaty with the United States of February Twenty-second Hundred and Nineteen and of the Obligation Assumed by the United States to Pay the Claim of R.W. Meade Against Spain as Part Consideration of the Purchase of the Floridas1910 - 26 Seiten |
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2d Session 51st Congress Adams American citizen American Government amount assumed and paid became liable bill for relief Cadiz citizens against Spain claim for want claim in full claimant Committee on Claims Court of Claims debt due deputies distinct assurance equity of Congress exchange of ratifications faith with Spain February 22 fifth finding final ratification finding of fact Foreign Relations forgive the unnecessary full the Meade grants to Alagon ground honor House Report illegally imprisoned ister January 24 jurisdiction Justice CLIFFORD late in Sep learned Justice Madrid Meade award Meade claim Meade heirs mittee null and void October October 18 passed the Senate pay the Meade payment private grants question quoted ratified the treaty relief passed rendered Richard W says Secretary signified their trust sine qua non Spain ratified Spanish Government Spanish Minister strictures indulged Supreme Court territory ceded three grants tion treaty of 1819 unfavorable report United vouchers West Florida
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Seite 5 - To all claims of citizens of the United States upon the Spanish government, statements of •which, soliciting the interposition of the government of the United States, have been presented to the Department of State, or to the Minister of the United States in Spain, since the date of the convention of 1802, and until the signature of this treaty.
Seite 5 - ... reciprocally renounce all claims for damages or injuries which they themselves, as well as their respective citizens and subjects, may have suffered until the time of signing this treaty.
Seite 5 - Onis] desires that the stipulation of $5,000,000 contained in this article may be stricken out, for he is aware that the territories ceded are sufficient to pay triple that sum ; and by agreeing to that stipulation it would appear that Spain, in consideration only of the said amount, has ceded the two Floridas and other territories, when she would not have ceded them for twenty millions, were it not her desire to arrange and terminate all differences with the United States.
Seite 8 - Spain that the article in the treaty which provided that all grants of lands made by Spain in the Floridas after the 24th of January, 1818, should be declared null and void, " had been agreed to on the part of the United States, with a clear understanding that it included certain grants alleged to have been made, in the course of the preceding winter, by the King to the Duke of Alagon, the Count Bostro, and a certain Mr. Vargas...
Seite 5 - ... exceeding five millions of dollars. It is commonly stated that the United States purchased Florida for that sum of money. In the negotiation the Spanish Minister objected to the article stipulating for the payment, on the ground that it would appear from it that in consideration of that amount Spain had ceded the two Floridas and other territories, when she would not have ceded them for $20,000,000 but for her desire to arrange and terminate all differences with the United States.
Seite 4 - ... to one hand and total discomfiture to the other. In the negotiation with Spain we had a just claim to the Mississippi and its waters, and our citizens had a fair though very precarious claim to indemnities. We had a mere color of claim to the Rio del Norte, no claim to a line beyond the Rocky Mountains, and none to Florida, which we very much wanted. The treaty gives us the Mississippi and all its waters— gives us Florida— gives us an acknowledged line to the South Sea, and seventeen degrees...
Seite 4 - We had a mere color of claim to the Rio del Norte, no claim to a line beyond the Rocky Mountains, and none to Florida, which we very much wanted. The treaty gives us the Mississippi and all its waters — gives us Florida — gives us an acknowledged line to the South Sea, and seventeen degrees of latitude upon its shores — gives our citizens five millions of dollars of indemnity — and barely gives up to Spain the colorable claim from the Sabine to the Rio del Norte.
Seite 5 - Spain from all demands in the future on account of the claims of her citizens, and undertook to make satisfaction for the same to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars.
Seite 12 - We think, however, it is not necessary to rest the decision in this case upon the ground mentioned, alone.