[SEAL.]
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington,
the 19th day of April, A.D. 1809, and of the Independence of the United
States the thirty-third.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
R. SMITH,
_Secretary of State_.
[From Annals of Congress, Eleventh Congress, part 2, 2076.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, in consequence of a communication from His Britannic Majesty's
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary declaring that the
British orders of council of January and November, 1807, would have been
withdrawn on the 10th day of June last, and by virtue of authority given
in such event 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," I, James Madison, President of the United States, did
issue my proclamation bearing date on the 19th of April last, declaring
that the orders in council aforesaid would have been so withdrawn on the
said 10th day of June, after which the trade suspended by certain acts
of Congress might be renewed; and
Whereas it is now officially made known to me that the said orders in
council have not been withdrawn agreeably to the communication and
declaration aforesaid:
I do hereby proclaim the same, and, consequently, that the trade
renewable on the event of the said orders, being withdrawn, is to be
considered as under the operation of the several acts by which such
trade was suspended.
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