[1057] 7th August 1803. Martens, Recueil, 2. viii. 105.
[1058] Martens, Recueil, iii. 763, 10th Sept. 1784, Art. vi.
[1060] Oct. 28, 1790, Art. iv. Martens, ibid. iv. 489, 497. Wheaton, Elements, 307 (ed. 1864).
[1061] Wheaton, Elements, 723 ; President’s Proclamation of Neutrality, April 22, 1793; Mr Jefferson, Secretary of State, to M. Genet, 8th Nov. 1793; Wharton’s Digest of the International Law of the United States, i. c. 2, s. 32.
[1062] Opinion of Attorney-General, 14th May 1793; Letter of Sec. of State to the French Minister, 15th May 1793; Kent’s Commentaries, i. 30. Delaware Bay, it may be said, has always been, and still is, claimed as territorial water by the United States. Vide reply of Government of United States to Observations of British Government on Draft Treaty, 1887. Correspondence relative to the Fisheries Question, 1887-1888. Parl. Papers (Canada), 1888, p. 70.
[1063] Act of Congress, 5th June 1794, c. 50. Kent’s Commentaries, 30.
[1064] Wheaton, Elements, 724.
[1065] Wharton’s Digest, i. c. 2.
[1066] Mr Madison to Messrs Monroe and Pinckney, 17th May 1806. Kent, Commentaries, i. 31.