The first international railway and the colonization of New England
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...with the Secretary of State of the United States. The advantages proposed to Maine, for this surrender of territory, were the free navigation of the river St. John and the payment over of the proceeds of the timber robbery, which was to go into a "disputed territory fund," to be kept by New Brunswick. That provision of the treaty for the free navigation of the St. John, in the following words, "All the produce of the forests grown on those parts of the state of Maine watered by the river St. John "shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the province of New Brunswick" was shamefully evaded and defeated by the abolition of stumpage dues in New Brunswick, and the imposition of a high export duty on all lumber floated upon the St. John River--a plan substituted in place of the old method of selling lumber. The disputed territory fund, it is true, reached a large sum, which Maine expected to receive; but it was all consumed by the claims for expense, and not a dollar of it was ever paid over to Maine. Mr. Webster lived long enough to see the boasted advantages he had " secured to Maine by the treaty" vanish into thin air. How persistently Maine has always, and since the ratification of the treaty, asserted her rights, the documentary history of the United States Avill show; with what success, the various bills and other matters on the files of Congress will establish. A bill reported in 1862, and again in 1864, from the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, compensating Maine and Massachusetts for lands assigned to occupants under the fourth article of the treaty of Washington, lies undisposed on the table of the Senate. That Maine has not been disloyal, her whole history and the records of the last three years... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-14, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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