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 APPENDIX. PROCLlXMATIONS. NOS. 10, 11. 759 No. 10. Susjoendingpzs to I1is_p<mioZa,theRestraints0f the Act of 1799, ch. 2. BY JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF Sept. 6, 1800. AMERICA. —··—·——-———- A PROCLAMATION. `VIIEREAS by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the Preamble. twenty-seventh day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the 1799 0],2 M commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the depend- ’ l ` encies thereof; " it is enacted, “That at any time after the passing of the said, , got, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by his ordeigto VOL l' p' 6b' remit and discontinue for the time being, whenever he shall deem it expedient and lbr the interest of the United States, all or any of the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the said act, in respect to the territories of the French Republic, or to any island, port or place belonging to the said republic, with which, in his opinion, a commercial intercourse may be safely renewed; and to make proclamation thereof aeeordin¤ly:"And it is also thereby further enacted that the whole of the Island ofdlispaniola shall, for the purposes of the said act, be considered as a dependence of the French republic: And whereas the circumstances of the said island arc such that, in my opinion, a commercial intercourse may safely be renewed with every part thereolQ under the limitations and restrictions hereinafter mentioned: Therefore I, J OHN ADAMS, President of the United States, by virtue of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby remit and discontinue the restraints and pr0hi· Restraints gf bimtions imposed by the act aforesaid, in respect to every part of the said island, said act talaen so that it shall be lawful for vessels of the United States to trade at any of the 95: asm H‘SIl”¤‘ ports and places thereof : Provided it be done with the consent: of the govern- lgmsn °mam ment of St. Domingo; and tbr this purpose it is hereby required, that such ` vessels first clear for and enter the port of Cape Francais or Port Republicain iu the said Island, and there obtain the passports of the said government, which ‘ shall also be signed by the Consul—Gencral of the United States, or their consul residing at Cape Francais, or their consul residing at Port Republicain, permitting such vessels to go thence to the other ports and places of the said Island. OF all which the collectois of the customs, and all other officers and citizens of the United States are to take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. Given under my hand, and the seal of the United States of America, at the city of Vhshington, this sixth day of September, in the year of [1.. ss.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and of the independence of the said States the tsventyfifth. JOHN ADAMS. BY rm-: Piaesrnexrz J. MARSHALL, Secretary of State. No. 11. Requidng Removal of British Armed Vessels from United States Ports and Hizters. BY THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES July 2, 1807. OF AMERICA. —;——· A PROCLAMATION. DURING the wars which, for some time, have unhappily prevailed among the Preamble ns powers of Europe, the United States of America., iirm in their principles of *0_0Hg*§*}$B€$}{**§] peace, have endeavored by justice, by a regular discharge of all their national glrggd vgssgisls and social duties, and by every friendly office their situation has admitted, to maintain with all the belligercnts their accustomed relations of friendship, hospitality, and commercial intercourse; taking no part in the questions which animate these powers against each other, nor pcrmittinv themselves to entertain a wish but for the restoration of general peace, they {have observed with good faith the neutrality they assumed, and they believe that no instance of a departure from its duties can be justly imputed to them by any nation. A free use