And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments,
and prosecutions for fines, penalties, and forfeitures against any
person or persons who shall be entitled to the benefit of this full
pardon forthwith to be stayed, discontinued, and released; and all
civil officers are hereby required, according to the duties of their
respective stations, to carry this proclamation into immediate and
faithful execution.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 6th day of February, in the year
1815, and of the Independence of the United States the thirty-ninth.
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
JAMES MONROE,
_Acting as Secretary of State_.
[From Niles's Weekly Register, vol. 7, p. 397.]
JAMES MADISON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
_To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting_:
Whereas a treaty of peace and amity between the United States of America
and His Britannic Majesty was signed at Ghent on the 24th day of
December, 1814, by the plenipotentiaries respectively appointed for that
purpose; and the said treaty having been, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate of the United States, duly accepted, ratified, and
confirmed on the 17th day of February, 1815, and ratified copies thereof
having been exchanged agreeably to the tenor of the said treaty, which
is in the words following, to wit:
[Here follows the treaty.
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