Petersburg.
JAMES MADISON.
PROCLAMATIONS.
[From Annals of Congress, Eleventh Congress, part 2, 2060.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by the eleventh section of the act of Congress
entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the
United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and
for other purposes," that "in case either France or Great Britain shall
so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the
neutral commerce of the United States" the President is authorized to
declare the same by proclamation, after which the trade suspended by the
said act and by an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the
ports and harbors of the United States and the several acts
supplementary thereto may be renewed with the nation so doing; and
Whereas the Honorable David Montague Erskine, His Britannic Majesty's
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, has, by the order and
in the name of his Sovereign, declared to this Government that the
British orders in council of January and November, 1807, will have been
withdrawn as respects the United States on the 10th day of June next:
Now, therefore, I, James Madison, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim that the orders in council aforesaid will have been
withdrawn on the said 10th day of June next, after which day the trade
of the United States with Great Britain, as suspended by the act of
Congress above mentioned and an act laying an embargo on all ships and
vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States and the several
acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed.
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