Report on the Commercial and Industrial Condition of the Island of Cuba

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Sida 218 - ... engage mutually not to grant any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation, if the concession was conditional.
Sida 231 - Every act rewards itself, or, in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner: first, in the thing, or in real nature; and, secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thing, and is seen by the soul.
Sida 231 - Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Sida 133 - Amended Customs Tariff and Regulations for ports in Cuba in Possession of the United States/' is therefore temporarily amended accordingly.
Sida 125 - That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all...
Sida 112 - DEAR SIR: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 7th instant submitting to me therewith a copy of a resolution adopted by your Council, which I note.
Sida 253 - ... more remunerative returns, and its life is prolonged, which is a big item to the farmer. They are also much less addicted to smoking in the field, and danger from this source is materially reduced; but, as a rule, they are dishonest and untruthful in the extreme, and this is general and applies both to whites and blacks, the latter being champions.
Sida 251 - ... countervailing duty to offset foreign bounties always maintained) , she can hold her own and recover her prestige as a sugar-producing country, but the margin of profit in sugar manufacturing is so small and the world's capacity for production so great that Cuba...
Sida 218 - The contracting parties, desiring to live in peace and harmony with all the other nations of the earth, by means of a policy, frank, and equally friendly with all, engage mutually not to grant any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which...
Sida 255 - ... enforced. In the dry season (at midday), when the people are in the batey, sentinels are stationed on the hills to give timely warning of cane fires. Armed guards patrol the fields by day and guard the cattle at night; this applies in times of peace.

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