# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/Appendices/Appendix 1/Proclamation 8

8. Respecting Commerce with the British Colonial Ports.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
1823, ch. 22.Whereas, by the sixth section of an Act of Congress, entitled “An act to regulate the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain British colonial ports,” which was approved on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, it is enacted, “that this act, unless repealed, altered or amended, by Congress, shall be and continue in force so long as the above enumerated British colonial ports shall be open to the admission of the vessels of the United States, conformably to the provisions of the British act of Parliament, of the twenty-fourth of June last, being the forty-fourth chapter of the acts of the third year of George the Fourth: but if at any time the trade and intercourse between the United States and all or any of the above enumerated British colonial ports, authorized by the said act of Parliament, should be prohibited by a British order in Council, or by act of Parliament, then, from the day of the date of such order in Council, or act of Parliament, or from the time that the same shall commence to be in force, proclamation to that effect having been made by the President of the United States, each and every provision of this act, so far as the same shall apply to the intercourse between the United States and the above enumerated British Colonial ports, in British vessels, shall cease to operate in their favour; and each and every provision of the ‘Act concerning navigation,’ approved the eighteenth of April, one thousand1818, ch. 70. 1820, ch. 122. eight hundred and eighteen, and of the act supplementary thereto, approved on the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall revive and be in full force:”
And whereas, by an act of the British Parliament, which passed on the fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, entitled “An act to repeal the several laws relating to the customs,” the said act of Parliament of the twenty-fourth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, was repealed; and by another act of the British Parliament, passed on the fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in the sixth year of the reign of George the Fourth, entitled “An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad,” and by an order of His Britannic Majesty in Council, bearing date the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the trade and intercourse authorized by the aforesaid act of Parliament, of the twenty-fourth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, between the United States and the greater part of the said British Colonial ports therein enumerated, have been prohibited upon and from the first day of December last past, and the contingency has thereby arisen on which the President of the United States was authorized by the sixth section aforesaid of the act of Congress of first March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to issue a proclamation to the effect therein mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the trade and intercourse authorized by the said act of Parliament of the twenty-fourth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two,1823, ch. 22. between the United States and the British Colonial ports enumerated in the aforesaid act of Congress of the first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, have been, and are, upon and from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, by the aforesaid two several acts of Parliament of the fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and by the aforesaid British order in Council of the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, prohibited.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
By the President.
Henry Clay,
Secretary of State.