You are welcome, David. I don't know that it did anything to apply in that way, but after careful consideration, I do think that border security is and was part of the original Republic and any "official" document I can get which states:Originally Posted by David Merrill
"The Secretary of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection."
Might be a good thing to have. After all, a port is legally defined as:
PORT. A place to which the officers of the customs are appropriated, and which include the privileges and guidance of all members and creeks which are allotted to them. 1 Chit. Com. Law, 726; Postlewaith's Com. Dict. h.t.; 1 Chit. Com. L. Index, h.t. According to Dalloz, a port is a place within land, protected against the waves and winds, and affording to vessels a place of safety. Diet. Supp. h.t. By the Roman law a port is defined to be locus, conclusus, quo importantur merces, et unde exportantur. Dig. 50,16, 59. See 7 N. S. 81. 2. A port differs from a haven, (q.v.) and includes something more. 1st. It is a place at which vessels may arrive and discharge, or take in their cargoes. 2. It comprehends a vale, city or borough, called in Latin caput corpus, for the reception of mariners and merchants, for securing the goods, and bringing them to market, and for victualling the ships. 3. It is impressed with its legal character by the civil authority. Hale de Portibus Mar. c. 2; 1 Harg. 46, 73; Bac. Ab. Prerogative, D 5; Com. Dig. Navigation, E; 4 Inst. 148; Callis on Sewers, 56; 2 Chit. Com. Law, 2; Dig. 60, 16, 59; Id. 43, 12, 1, 13; Id. 47, 10, 15, 7; Id. 39, 4, 15.
I think maybe, a "passport" when obtained properly (lawful money payment and factual reporting on the application) can be used to secure ones right to "pass" from admiralty/maritime/legal to the land.
The more I get into these subjects, the more I find "government" agents are willing and able to provide and fill their lawful roles/duties as protectors of rights when lawfully demanded by the people.
I remember in my earlier days of research, someone wrote "if you go into their admiralty courts and claim common law, you better have a passport".
A "pass-port" to get out of off their "docket" and back onto dry land should things go poorly?
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