THE

AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CODE,

EMBRACING A COLLECTION OF

TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS

BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN POWERS:

PUBLIC MINISTERS AND CONSULS,

AND FOR ALL OTHERS HAVING OFFICIAL OR COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.

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.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtyfour, by Jonathan Elliot, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the District of Columbia.

These Volumes

CONTAINING A COMPILATION

ON AMERICAN CONVENTIONAL LAW,

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

TO THE HONORABLE LOUIS MCLANE,

SECRÉTAI SECRETARY OF STATE,

;

AS A MARK OF ESTEEM FOR HIS PUBLIC SERVICES AND PRIVATE WORTH,

BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, AND FELLOW CITIZEN,

J. ELLIOT.