PUBLIC MINISTERS AND CONSULS,
AXD FOR ALL OTHERS HAVING OFFICIAL OR COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGX 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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PRINTED BY JONATHAN ELLIOT, JUNIOR,

OX THE PZXXSYLVANIA AVENUB.

es 81.5 BV

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART

1926

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.

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

BI AIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, AND FELLOW CITIZEN,

J. ELLIOT.