Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-19
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES,
PROCLAMATION

Wurpr,s by the sixth section Of an act oil
Congress entitled Gan act to regulate the com
",nercial intercourse between the United States
"aod certain British Colonial porls," which
WAS appreved on the first day oI March, IN the
wear of our Lord 1928, II is enacted THAT this
aact. unless repealed, altered or amended, by
"Congress. shall be and continue IN force so
.slorc ,s ,he above enumerated British colonial
snorIs shall be open to the admission Of the
l,,c,sels of the United States, oontornah!y 10
,s,be provisions of the British act OF Parila-
ssment. of the twenty-four,h of June last, being
"Ibe forty fourth chapter OF the Acts OF the
",bird vaar of George The Fourth: But II al any
s,,;me the trade and intercourse between the
nI1ri,ei States and all or any of the above emu
.'merated British colonial ports, authorized BY
sS,he said act of Parliament, should be prohlbl
"bi,rd by British Order IN Council, or by act
oor Parliament, then, from the day of the date
"of such Order in. Council, or act OF Parliament,
"oI from the lime that the same shall com
"mencc to be in force, PROCLAMATION TO that Ell
"ject havinybeen made by The President OF The
"Uni,el States, each and every provision of'his
.,act, sofar as the same shall apply TO the inter-
acourse between the United States and the a
Shove enumerated British colonial ports, in
"British vessels, shall cease To operate IN their
"favor; and each and every provision of the Act
concerning Navigation, approved on the
"eichteerlh Of April, one thousand eight hun
"drrd ard eighteen, and Of the act supplement
"tary thereto, approved on the fifteenth OF May,
cone thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall
"r"vive and he in full force"
And whereas, by an act the British Parlia-
men,, which passed on the fifth day of July, in
the year Of our Lord 1925, enlillcd San act 10
repeal the several laws relating to the Customs,
the said act Of Parliament of the oath Of June,
1922, WAS repealed; and BY another act OF the
British Parliament, passed on the fifth Gay Of
July, ir the year Of our Lord 1925, in the sixth
wear of The reign Of George the Fourth, entitled
Gan act to regulate the trade OF the BRUSH pos
sessions sJroad," and by an order Of His Bri-
fannie Msies,y in Council, bearing date the
9Th % July, 1926, the trade and intercourse
authorized by the aforr said act Of Parliament,
of thu Gath Of June, 1922, 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 De-
cembcr last past, and the contingency has
thereby arisen on which the President Of The
United States was authorized by the sixth Sec
ton aforesaid of the act Of Congress Of LIST OF
March, 1928, to issue a proclamation to The ef-
Zee, therein mentioned:
Now, therefore, /. john QuINcY ADAMS, Pre-
sident Of the United States Of America, do
hereby declare and proclaim that the trade and
intercourse authorized by the said act OF 'ariia'
ment of The oath OF June, 1922, between the
United States and the British Colonial ports
enume rated in the aforesaid act OF Congress oil
the LIST Of March 1928, have been, and are, upon
and from the LIST day Of December, 1895, by the