Litchfield enquirer., 1830-10-14
COLONIAL INTERcouRst

@''S'eN "ae We tvllow wlng Is the mode in which O"r nsercOurss with the British West Indies s to he re"e~ed. He Prssident'S Proclamation will frs, open our POr's 'O British vessels coming from their por.s shut against us afier which is s expected that we shall soon receive royal proclamation from King William ", lsay by the 1st Of January, when the shps Of His Maesys Northern Provinces will be shut Oy 'ee' and cannot get tO the West Tndes,) remOv- ng the inierdict to vessels, and permitting carry certain articles of produce, certain ports 'n his West India colonies, under the of Parlia- ment OG July, 1895, T which act prohibits the beef and pork Of farmers from entering his West India market. No tFeaiy has been formet-the British still nderiMs their past policy of considering the trade as boom, iO be given withheld, whenever and however iG may suit their views open close upon
 Mark this: under every administration, we have occasionally been permitted by act of Parliament, or ders in council, proclamation, to trade with the British w. !. COlOnies, and have been tn turn shut and this! administration has been able to put the trnle fair, permanent treaty footing, that would give stability the intercourse, though all have sried.-N. Haren Reg.
 Hers is tie Proclamation of the President of the Unssed ssaies upoa the suljects
 she Presidsns ef the Caaed S,ates ef America.
 .I r..h A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAs, by act oi ihe Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty y-nnlh day of May, one whenever the President of the United States sall re. ceive satisfactory evidence that the Government of Great Rrain w.!l open the ports in its COlonal pos sessions the West Indea fhe Continent of South America, the Bahama Islands, the Caicos and the Bermuda or Somer islands. to the vessels of the Uni ted States, for an indefinite or for limited term that the vessels of the United Stacs and their cargoes entering the Colonial ports aforesaid, shall be sub ject to otheroF higher duties Of tonnage mpost charges of any other description. than would be im pcsed An British vessels, their cRrgoes arriving in ihe said Colonial possessions from the United States that the vessels o the United States may import into the said Coonia possessions, from the United Staes any article articles which could be imported in British vesBel into the said pOssessOns, from the Un ted Satss; and that the vessesof ihe United States may export from the British Colonies af,reme ntoned t0 any country whatever, other than the dominons or posscssions of Great BritaiN any article articles slat be exported ihereirom tn British vessel, nay country other than the British dominons pos sessions aforesaid; leaving the intercourse of he United Staics with all other parts of the British donainioHs possessions footing not less favOra ble to the United States than now s; that then, and H such case, the President o the United States ehal be authorized, at any time before the session of Congress to issuc hs Proclamation, declaring that he has received such evidence; and thai therenpon and from the date of such Procamation, the ports of the United States shall he opened. indefinitely, or for term fixed, the may he, to British vessels com. ing from the said British Colonial possessions, and their cargoes, suljec other higher duly of tonnage mpost, or charge of any description what ever, than would he levied on the vessels of the Un ,sd Stass or their eargoss arriving iron ,he '%d said British vessels to import ato the United States and to export ihereGOn. amy article articles which
 2: % NavigaiiOn," passed oa the eighfeeRth day of April, ons thousand eight hundred and eighteen, act sup p"s ou.soS esS. h""ded @ "Sa .we".y asd an as 0atised "AB act to regulate the commercial inter course between ths United States and eertain Bvi,sh and eight hundred and .wenty.hree, shall. in such caso be cnspsnded os absolutely rePeasd as the case may require:
 ded, that, whenever the ports of the United States shall have been opened under the authority thereby given, British vessels and their cargoes shall be ad 4i'ted to an entry n the ports of she United States from the Islands, Provinces, or Colonies of Great Britain, on near the North American continent, and North or East of the United States:
 AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been re- ceived by the President of the United States. that whenever he shall give eject to the provisions of the act aforesaid, the Governmcnt of Great Britain will open, for an indefinite period, the ports in its Colonial possessions in the West Indies the continent Of South America. the Bahama Islands. the Cacoa. and the Ber%uda or some! Islands to the vessel. Of the according to the acquisitions of the aforesaid act of Congress:
 Now, THEREFORE, l. ANDREW JACKSON, Presi. den, of the United States of America, do hereby de- clare sad proclaim. that such evidence has been re- ceivcd by me and ihat by tine operaon of the act of Congress passed the tweniy-ninth day of May, .hoasaad eight hundred and ,hiry, the ports of the United States nTe from the date of this Proclamation, open British vessels coming from the said British poseesso9s, and their cargoes. upon the terms set iorth in the said act; the act, entitled :" An act cerniRg Navigation" passed the eighteenth day of April thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the act supplementary thereto passed the fifteenth day of May one thousand eight handred and twenty and the act eniitled "An net to regulate the commercial in tercoarss between the Uniisd States and certain British Povts," passed tho 6rss day of March, one thousand eight hundred aud tweRiy-shree, abso- lately repealed; aad British vessels sad heir cargoes are admiMesiao entry in ile ports Of the Uaied States rOm the Islands, Prov,Rees, and ColoDee Oi Great Britain, oa 0r aear the North American con. tinent, and North or East of the Uaited States.
 GtvEN under my hasd, at the City Of Wash-
 ~ ingtos. the 6Th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thoUsand eight hundred , and thirty, and the 6fty-ffh Of the Inde. a' .'s pendence of the United States.
 f ANDREW JACKSON. By the President:
 n. VAN BuREN, Secretary 0f State.
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