American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1827-03-20
BY THE PREsIDENT or THE UNITED STATES,
PROCLAMATION.

RY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED oTATES,
PROCLAMATION.
| WHEREAS by the sixth section of an act Of Con-
press entitled can act to regulate the commercial
Intercourse between the United States and certain
British Colonial ports," which was approved on
,he first day Of March, in the year Of our Lord
1928 it is enacted that this act, unless repealed
altered or amended, by Congress, shall be and
continue in force 80 long as the above enumerated
British colonial ports shall be open to the admis-
sion Of the vessels of the United States, conform
aby to the provisions of the British act of Parla
ment, of the twentyfourth 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 British Order in Council,
or by act of Parliament then, from the day OF the
date Of such Order in Council, or act Of Parlia
ment, or from the time that the same shall com
mence 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 Bri
sh colonial ports, in British vessels, shall cease
to operate in Their favor; and each and every pro-
vision Of the Act concerning Navigation ap.
proved on the eighteenth of April, one thousand
esht hundred and eighteen, and of the act supple
mentary thereto, approved on the fifteenth OF May,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall re-
yye and be in full force"
And whereas, by an act of the British Parlla-
ment, which passed the fifth day Of July, in the
year of our Lord 1926, entitled 6 An act to re-
pea the several Laws relating to the Customs"
the said act Of Parliament Of the Gath OF June,
1922, was repealed; and by another act of the
British Parliament, passed OH the fifth day OF July,
in the year of our I.or, 1925, in the sixth year OF
the reign of George the Fourth entitled " An act
10 regulate the trade of the British possessions
abroad" and by an order Of His Britannia Majes.
" in Council, bearing date the 27th Of July, 1926,
the trade and intercourse authorized by the aore-
said act of Parliament, of the Gath OF June, 1922,
between the Omitted States and the greater part of
the said British colonial ports therein enumerated,
have been prohibited upon aud from the first day
Of December last past, and the contingency has
thereby arisen on which the President Of the u
nited States was authorized by the sixth section
aforesaid Of the act of Congress Of lst March,
1928, to issue proclamation to the effect therein
mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, JOHN QuINcY ADAMS. Pre-
sIent Of the United States of America, do hereby
declare and proclaim that the trade and inter-
course authorized by the sai, act of Parliament Of
the Oath of June, 1922, between the United States
and the British colonial ports enumerated III the
aforesaid act of Congress Of the st Of March, 1898
have been, and are, upon and from the LIST day OF
December 1896, by the aforesaid two several acts
Of Parliament, of the 9Th of July. 1925. and by
the aforesaid British Order in Council of the eth
day of July, 1926, prohibited.
Given under hand at the City Of Washington this
18th day of March, in ihe year of Lord 1897, and
the ffty-Hrs. Of the Independence of the United
States.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
BY the President:
H. CLAY,
Secretary of State.
Washington, March II.
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
After the matter for paper was prepared
ton on the subject Of the Colonial Trade, which
we this day publish. The law, it should seem.
does not authorize the President to issue his Pro
camation to take effect prospectively: but such
steps will of course be taken by the Executive as
candor and equity require, in regard to such ves-
aels as are now in port, or may arrive in the Uni
ted States without having received previous knowl-
edge of the Presidents Proclamation.
We certainly could have wished that Congress
should SO have left this matter that the British
government might have seen distinctly, and in the
form of law, the terms on which the United States
we're willing to open the Colonial Trade to both
parties, and had full time for the consideration Of
those terms. AS Congress, however, saw fit to
pass no new law, it has only remained for the Ex-
ecutive to carry into execution such laws as do ex-
is, according to its sense of duty The contin.
gency provided for by existing laws has happened,
and Congress having risen without altering those
laws nothing has remained to the Executive but to
give ,efectto those laws, in conformity with their
requirement.. Journal