Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Review of the Veto Message of President Pierce of February 17, 1855: On the Bill Relating to French Spoliations
The following brief summary may render the subject more clear, viz: The cap tures which had been condemned were definitively closed by the ratification of the convention of 1800, by which they were bartered away to France whereas the claims for captures not condemned, and the claims for debts due from France to our citizens, were consigned to the convention of 1803 for adjustment and payment.
The word debts was defined to embrace contracts, supplies, detentions by embargoes, and prizes made at sea, in which the Council of Prizes had ordered restitution, which, not being complied with in kind, were regarded as debts for their sum of value.
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