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Had the mutual abolition been stipulated by treaty, such a bounty upon the national vessels could scarcely have been granted consistent with good faith.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Quincy Adams: “Had the mutual abolition been stipulated by treaty, such a bounty upon the national vessels could scarcely have been…”
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Adams suggests that a treaty would have prevented the Netherlands from granting a bounty that undermines mutual agreements.
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