laws
relating to the customs," the said act of Parliament of the 24th of
June, 1822, was repealed; and by another act of the British Parliament,
passed on the 5th day of July, A. D. 1825, in the sixth year of the
reign of George IV, entitled "An act to regulate the trade of the
British possessions abroad;" and by an order of His Britannic Majesty in
council, bearing date the 27th of July, 1826, the trade and intercourse
authorized by the aforesaid act of Parliament of the 24th of June, 1822,
between the United States and the greater part of the said British
colonial ports therein enumerated, have been prohibited upon and from
the 1st day of December last past, and the contingency has thereby
arisen on which the President of the United States was authorized by the
sixth section aforesaid of the act of Congress of the 1st March, 1823,
to issue a proclamation to the effect therein mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the trade and intercourse
authorized by the said act of Parliament of the 24th of June, 1822,
between the United States and the British colonial ports enumerated in
the aforesaid act of Congress of the 1st of March, 1823, have been and
are, upon and from the 1st day of December, 1826, by the aforesaid two
several acts of Parliament of the 5th of July, 1825, and by the
aforesaid British order in council of the 27th day of July, 1826,
prohibited.

Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 17th day of March,
A. D. 1827, and the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United
States.

John Quincy Adams.

By the President:
H. Clay,
_Secretary of State_.

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By the President of the United States.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 7th of
January, 1824, entitled "An act concerning discriminating duties of
tonnage and impost," it is provided that upon satisfactory evidence
being given to the President of the United States by the government of
any foreign nation that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost
are imposed or levied within the ports of the said nation upon vessels
wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon merchandise
the produce or manufacture thereof imported in the same, the President
is thereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the
foreign discrimin