Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-08-11
aleranorta patlp Gazette.
FRIDAY, AUGUST II.
By the President Of the U. States
of Ameraca,
FRIDAY, AUGUST II.
A PROCLAMATION.

uary, QeCIaflng tnat TIC DfltiSH oIOEts III
council of January and November, 1907,
would have been withdrawn on the 10th day
of June last and by virtue of authority
given in such event, by the It'll sectionof
the act of Congress entitled I" an act to In
terdict the commercial intercourse between
the United States and Great Britain and
France and their dependencies and for o.
Their purposes" l, JAMES MADISON,
President of the United States, did issue
my proclamation bearing date on the 18th OF
April last, declaring that the orders in
council aforesaid would have been SO with
drawn on the said 10th day of June, after
which the trade suspended by certain acts
of Congress might be renewed and where
as ii is now officially made known to me
that the said orders in council have not
been Withdrawn agreeably to,he communi-
cation and declaration aforesaid do here
by proclaim the same. and consequently
Ethat the trade renewable on the event Of the
SAID orders being withdrawn tc be consi-
dered as under tie operation OF, the several
acts by which such trade was suspended,
Giycn under my hand and the seal of the
United States at the City of Washing"
ton the ninth day Of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eghs
hundred and nine, and Of the hide.
pendence of the said United States the
thirty-fourth.
(SieneD
JAMES MADISON.
By the President,
r. SMITH, Secretary Of State.
(CIRcULAR.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
august 9th, 1909.
Sir,
You will herewith receive the copy of
a Proclamation of the President of the &.
States, announcing that certain British or
ders in Council were not withdrawn on tbs
10th day of June last, and consequently
that the trade renewable, on the event OF the
said orders being Withdrawn, is to be consl-
dered as under the operation OF the several
acts by which such trade was suspended.
The act " to amend and continue in force
| certain parts OF the act entitled S An act to
interdict the commercial intercourse be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
and France and their dependencies, and for
other purposes" passed on the 2sth day of
|une, is therefore in every respect applica-
Die to Great Britain and her dependencies,
as well as TO France and her dependencies !;
any thing in my circular of 2sth June last,
20 the contrary Notwithstanding.
T. ..,,l., H., {,o,, tLa yareIpt IF tho
YOU must in every instance, except as here
matter expressed, refuse clearances tor Bri-
lish ports, requiring as usual, bonds from
all vessels bound to permitted ports, in the
manner provided by the Sd section OF the
ACT above mentioned, But as many British
vessels have or may come into the ports of
the United States in consequence of the
Presidents proclamation Of the 18th of A.
pril last, he directs that you will permit
such British vessels to depart without Civ.
ne bond, either in ballast, or with the CAR
20 on board when notified of the enclosed
proclamation it being however understood
that this indulgence shall not be extended to
/ any other vessels than such as are now in
I. the ports of the Uuited States, or such as
/ may hereafter arrive, having sailed from a
foreign port before information of the en-
s closed proclamation shall have been receiv-
ed at such port.
The President also directs that, until a
decision from Congress on that unexpected
point shall have been obtained, or until o.
therwise instructed seizures or prosecutions
for supposed contrayentions of either the a
bove mentioned act or of the non-intercourse
act Of 1st of March last, arising from acts
which would, in conformity with his pro-
clamation Of the 10Th April last, have been
considered as.lawful, shall be suspended in
the following cases, viz.
1. All vessels which have entered a Bril-
- IL -. u u e T., or