Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of the special agent of the Untied States, recently sent to Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The chief purpose of the special agency entrusted to me I under- stood to be, to infuse among the citizens of the United States, tempo- rarily resident in the vicinity of Frazer river, a spirit of subordination to the colonial authorities, andof respect for the laws of Great Britain, and, at the same time, by such representations to the governor of Vancouver's island and British Columbia.Vancouver's Island as circumstances would suggest, to endeavor to obtain from that functionary the abrogation of the rigorous system of exactions theretofore pursued, and the adoption for the future of such a policy towards Americans as would not be inconsistent with their rights as the citizens of a friendly power, and would, furthermore, tend to promote among them feelings of kindness and good will towards the government and the subjects of Great Britain.Some such intervention by the United States was deemed necessary, for the reason that much exasperation was alleged to exist among those of our citizens, then making their way to the Frazer river mines, against the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company and the authorities of Vancouver's Island, in consequence of the onerous exactions to which they were said to have been subjected by those officials.The numerous complaints of such exactions that had already reached the government of the United States, as early as June last, were in that month brought to the notice of Lord Malmesbury by Mr. Dallas, our minister at London ; and, from the declarations of his lordship in reply, of the favorable disposition of the British government, as well as from repeated assurances of Lord Napier, the British minister at Washington, to the same effect, -assurances of the sincerity of which no doubt was entertained, -the hope was indulged that the rigor of the exactions previously practiced would, upon proper representations of their injustice, be abated, and that the work of conciliation would be one of no difficult accomplishment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".