linois, Missouri, and
Arkansas, and of the late receiver of public moneys in the western
district of Missouri, and to the sums for which they were respectively
defaulters; also the sums due by each of the late directors of the Bank
of Missouri to the United States, and to the measures taken for
obtaining or enforcing payment of the same.

John Quincy Adams.

Washington,
_March 2, 1827_

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:

I transmit to both Houses of Congress copies of communications received
yesterday by the Secretary of War from the governor of Georgia and from
Lieutenant Vinton.[012]

John Quincy Adams.

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PROCLAMATIONS.

By the President of the United States.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the sixth section of an act of Congress entitled "An act to
regulate the commercial intercourse between the United States and
certain British colonial ports," which was approved on the 1st day of
March, A. D. 1823, it is enacted "that this act, unless repealed,
altered, or amended by Congress, shall be and continue in force so long
as the above-enumerated British colonial ports shall be open to the
admission of the vessels of the United States, conformably to the
provisions of the British act of Parliament of the 24th of June last,
being the forty-fourth chapter of the acts of the third year of George
IV; 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 a
British order in council or by act of Parliament, then, from the day of
the date of such order in council or act of Parliament, or from the time
that the same shall commence 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 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 18th of April, 1818, and of the act supplementary thereto, approved
on the 15th of May, 1820, shall revive and be in full force;" and

Whereas by an act of the British Parliament which passed on the 5th day
of July, A. D. 1825, entitled "An act to repeal the several