Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-08-21
tciRCULAR.)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

fngW 9fb, 1909.
SIR,-YOU will herewith receive the copy
Of Proclamation of the PRECEDENT of the u.
States, announcing that certain Bri,iih Or
ders in Council were NOT Withdrawn on the
roth day Of June tan, and coniequently that
the trade renewable on the event of the fad
orders being Withdrawn, is TO be confidered
as under the operation of the feveral acts by
which iuch trade was lufpendcd.
Ne aSt to "amrnd and contin ne IN force
CERTAIN parts of The aa entitled " An act 10
in.srdiet the commercial intercourle between
the United States and Great Britain and
France and their dependencies, and for other
purpoles." paTed on the a8th day of Jone, is
therefore in every rcfpea applicable to Great
Britain and her dependencies, as well as 20
France and her dependencies any thing III
my circular of a9th Jane lsa, TO the contrary
notwithstanding.
1t refults thar from the receipt of this, you
n,u0 in every infance, except as herein after
expreled, refufe clearances for Britifh ports.
requiring as ataal, bonds from all vciltl,
bound to permitted ports, III the manner pro-
vidcd by the Sd fiction Of the ACT abovemen-
toned. But as many Britiih veiiels have or
may come into the ports OF thc United Stat es
in confsauence of the preiident's proclama-
tion of the 10Th of April lat, he dirests that
you will permit frcb Britiih .vell.ls TO depart
without giving bond, either in bailaf, or with
the cargo on board when notified of the en-
cIoied proclamation IL being however UNDER
fool that this indulgence ihall not he ex-
tended to any other veiTels than iuch as are
now in the ports of the United States, or fueh
as may hereafter arrive, having failed from
foreign port before information of the enslof-
ed proclamation fhall have been received at
iuch port.
The PRECEDENT alto directs that until de-
ciiion from Congrefs on that unexpected poiu,
shall have been obtained, or until otherwle
mhruSteI, feizures or proieruions for iuppo-
fed coniravention, of either the Abovemen'ion-
ed act or of the non.intercoule al Of IN
Narch lat, ariling from acts which would in
conformity with his proclamation of the oh
April iaf have beei conGdered as lawful
illaii be fufpended ia the following cafes, viz.
[. al vaiiels which have eu,ered a Briiinl
port Gace the 10Th of June Taft, or which May
hereafter enter fuch port, having failed for
the fame, before information of the enclo-
fed proclamation had been received at the
por, of departure 70 far as relate, to any
forfeiture OF penalty which NAV accrue or have
accrued by reafoa OF their having thus enter
ed Brtilh port.
.. All ye.fels which hsTe arrived, either
from Bai,ilr ports or with BfitIih merchsn.
dire In The Unired States fuhIeonent to the
iO,h of Juae taft and alto all yeilsls which
may hereafter thus arrive, having iaiied for
zoe United States, before information Of the
eicIoled proclamation ihsll have been receiv-
a.! ut the poit of departure, io far as relates
10 any forfeiture or rcnalty acc-uing from
having arrived or arriving in the United
States from Btitih ports or with Bsitnh mer.
elandize.
q Al yciEe!s now owned by e;tizef of the
United ST ate,, and falling under the Amer
can llas, which, being in foreign port AZ III.
i,ns vhsn the sdslSiel proc'anl.ian will b,