THE

AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CODE,

EMBRACING A COLLECTION OF

TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, AND FOREIGN POWERS:

FROM 1778 to 1834.

WITH AN

ABSTRACT OF IMPORTANT JUDICIAL DECISIONS,

ON POINTS CONNECTED WITH

Our Foreign Relations.

ALSO,

A CONCISE DIPLOMATIC MANUAL,

CONTAINING A SUMMARY OF THE

LAW OF NATIONS,

FROM TE WORKS OF
Wicquefort, Martens,

Kent,

1
Vattel,
Ward,

Story, &c. &c.

AND OTHER
DIPLOMATIC WRITINGS ON QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

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USEFUL FOR

PUBLIC MINISTERS AND CONSULS,
ASD FOR ALL OTHERS HAVING OFFICIAL OR COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGS XATIONS.

BY JONATHAN ELLIOT.

“ It would be exceedingly to the discredit of any person, who should be called to take a
" share in the councils of the nation, if he should be found deficient in the great leading
" principles of International Law.”—Kent's Commentaries on American Law.

IN TWO VOLUMES-VOLUME THE FIRST.

WITH NOTES AND INDEXES.

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OX THE PENNSYLVANIA AVEXUR.