...neutrality as governed by the law of nations. These rules are here inserted for your convenience : A neutral government is bound — First. To use due...ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry ou war against a power with which it is at peace; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure...

...upon the principles set forth in the rules which the American Commissioners had proposed, viz : That a neutral Government is bound, first, to use due diligence...reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or carry on war against a power with which it is at peace;' and also to use like diligence to prevent...

...the principles set forth in the rules which the American Commissioners had proposed, viz : That si neutral Government is bound, first, to use due diligence...reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or carry on war against a power with which it is at peace; and also to use like diligence to prevent the...

...Government agreed to observe as between themselves in future, are as follows: A neutral upvernment Is bound — First. To use due diligence to prevent...any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe 'No date of receipt is indicated on this or the following note (No. 254), also of August 4. The reply...

...as the United States had always understood it — A neutral Government is bound, first, to use duo diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping...any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe to be intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace, and also to...

...second part of the first rule had occasioned some dispute. It was to the effect that the neutral was to use like diligence to prevent the departure from...jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war against a belligerent, such vessel having been adapted, in whole or in part, for warlike purposes....

...its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or carry on war against a power with which it is at peace; and also to use like diligence-to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry...

...an army or fleet. ARTICLE VIII. emment is at peace. It is also bound to display the same vigilance to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise, or engage in hostile operations, which had been adapted entirely or partly within the said jurisdiction...

...depredations of these vessels. The first rule required a neutral to exercise due diligence in preventing the fitting out, arming, or equipping within its jurisdiction of any vessel which there was reasonable ground for believing was intended to cruise or carry on war against a power with...

...ANGLO-AMERICAN TREATY, WASHINGTON, MAY 8, 1871: ... a neutral Government is bound — First, to uie due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming,...the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel ... as above. . . . Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or...