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

1. Respecting Trade in Plaster of Paris with Nova Scotia.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
Reference to the Act of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, in 1816, prohibiting the landing of plaster of Paris eastward of Boston.Whereas, by an act of the lieutenant governor, council, and assembly, of his Britannic majesty’s province of Nova Scotia, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, it was, among other things, enacted, that, from and after the first day of May, of that year, “no plaster of Paris, otherwise called gypsum, which should be laden or put on board any ship or vessel at any port or place within the limits of the said province, to be transported from thence to any other port or place within or without the said limits, should, directly or indirectly, be unladen or landed, or put on shore, at any port or place in the United States of America, eastward of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, nor unladen or put on board any American ship, vessel, boat, or shallop, of any description, at any port or place eastward of Boston aforesaid, under the penalty of the forfeiture of every such ship or vessel from which any such plaster of Paris, or gypsum, should be unladen contrary to the provision of the said act, together with her boats, tackle, apparel, and furniture, to be seized and prosecuted in manner thereinafter mentioned:”
And whereas, by an act of Congress of the United States passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, it was enacted, that, from and after the fourth day of July, then next, no plaster of Paris, the production of any country, or its dependencies,1817, ch. 39. from which the vessels of the United States were not permitted to bring the same article, should be imported into the United States, in any foreign vessel — and that all plaster of Paris imported, or attempted to be imported, into the United States, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said act of Congress, and the vessel in which the same might be imported, or attempted to be imported, together with the cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, should be forfeited to the United States, and liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in the manner therein prescribed:
The Restrictions imposed by the Act of Congress, to cease on the discontinuance of the Regulations of any foreign nation &c. upon Proclamation of the President.And whereas, by the said act of Congress, it was further enacted, that the same should continue and be in force five years from the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen: Provided, nevertheless, That if any foreign nation or its dependencies, which at the time of the passage of the said act of Congress, had in force regulations on the subject of the trade in plaster of Paris, prohibiting the exportation thereof to certain ports of the United States, should discontinue such regulations, the President of the United States was thereby authorized to declare that fact by his proclamation; and the restrictions imposed by the said act of Congress should, from the date of such proclamation, cease and be discontinued in relation to the nation or its dependencies discontinuing such regulations:
The Legislature of Nova Scotia has repealed its act of 1816, &c.And whereas an act of the lieutenant governor, council, and assembly, of his Britannic majesty’s province of Nova Scotia, repealing the abovementioned act of the said province, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, has been officially communicated by his said majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to this government:
And the Regulations under it have been discontinued.And whereas, by the said repealing act of the said province of Nova Scotia, one of the dependencies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the regulations at the time of the passage of the said act of Congress, in force in the said province, on the subject of the trade in plaster of Paris, prohibiting ​the exportation thereof to certain ports of the United States, have been and are discontinued:
Proclamation, &c. Restrictions cease.Now therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, do, by this my proclamation, declare that fact, and that the restrictions imposed by the said act of Congress do, from the date hereof, cease, and are discontinued, in relation to his Britannic majesty’s said province of Nova Scotia.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in the forty-second year of the independence of the United States.
JAMES MONROE
By the President.
John Quincy Adams,
Secretary of State.