Notes on Brazilian QuestionsMacmillan and Company, 1865 - 236 páginas |
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Página 140 - Government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within...
Página 122 - Majesty, and there shall be no person present at the time of such death who shall be rightfully entitled to administer to the estate of such deceased person...
Página 2 - ... and the said vessel, as well as her cargo, shall be sold by public sale, for the profit of the two governments ; and as to the slaves, they shall receive from the mixed court a certificate of emancipation, and shall be delivered over to the government...
Página 150 - When the Parties interested shall imagine they have Cause to complain of any evident Injustice on the Part of the Mixed Commissions, they may represent it to their respective Governments, who reserve to themselves the Right of mutual Correspondence, for the Purpose of removing, when they think fit, the Individuals who may compose these Commissions.
Página 2 - ... commission a certificate of emancipation, and shall be delivered over to the government on whose territory the commission, which shall have so judged them, shall be established, to be employed as servants or free labourers. Each of the two governments binds itself to guarantee the liberty of such portion of these individuals as shall be respectively consigned to it.
Página 193 - Final," which it is proposed should be signed by all the delegates at the close of the meeting of the Conference. You state that this draft has been seen by many, if not by all. of the delegates, and that notwithstanding the great divergence...
Página 11 - Commission to the care of the Brazilian authorities, specifying what has become of them, whether dead, emancipated, or still in service; and I have been further instructed to state that as it was under the authority of a joint British and Brazilian Commission that these blacks were emancipated, Her Majesty's Government feel that they are entitled to ask for this information respecting them, and are bound to look to their welfare.
Página 90 - Britain in chasing slavers into the harbors of Brazil, and making seizures of them under its very forts, has contributed mainly to stimulate the Government of Brazil to put down the African slave-trade in that country.
Página xxxv - Questions," published in 1865, says of the action of the Government : " Left to itself, it did nothing ; it treated for a long time with neglect representations of the English Government ; it did not answer notes. When obliged to reply, it protested that its dignity did not allow it to act while pressed by a foreign government ; it resented interference, and clamored to be left free to execute its own laws, forgetting that treaty stipulations gave a right to England to interfere. At last, after force...