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 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. NOS. 39, 40. 789 Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washing- [L S] ton, this 25th day of February, A. D. 1853, and of the Indepen- ' ° dence of the United States the seventy-seventh. MILLARD FILLMORE. BY THE PRESIDENT! EDWARD EVERETT, Secretary of Stale. N0. 39. Privileges of Act of 1845, ch. 70, given to certain Places. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. 'Wnnmsns the Act of Congress of the 28th of Sentember, 1850, entitled 185% °‘*· 79- "An Act to create additional collection districts in the btate of California, and V0!. ix. p. 508- to change the existing district therein, and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States," extends to merchandise werehoused under bond, the privilege of being exported to the British North American Provinces adjoininm United States, in the manner prescribed in the Act of Congress of the 3d of ch, 1845, which desi ates certain frontier ports through which mer- 1845- ch' 7°• i i'- chandise may be exported, and-liurther provides “ that such other ports situated VOL V- P- 7 51- on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American Provinces as may hereafter be found expedient, may have extended to them the like privileges on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury and Proclamation duly made by the President of the United States, specially deggnating the ports to which the aforesaid rivileges are to be extended : " ow, therefore, I, FRANKLIN PIERCEB, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, do hereby declare and roclaim, that the ports of Rouse’s Point, Cape Vincent, Suspension Brid e, and Bunkirk, in the State of New York; Swanton, Alburg, and Island Ponzié in the State of Vermont; Toledo, in the State of Ohio; Chicago, in the State of Illinois; Milwaukie, in the State of Wisconsin; Michilimackinac, in the State of Michigan; Eastport, in the State of Maine; and Pembina, in the territory of Minnesota, are and shall be entitled to all the Rrivilegcs in regard to the exportation of merchandise in bond to the British orth American Provinces, adjoining the United States, which are extended to the ports enumerated in the 7th section of the Act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1845, aforesaid, from and after the date of this Proclamation. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [L' S'] hundred and fifty live, and of the Independence of the United State of America the seventy-ninth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY im: Pxucsxnnnr: YV. L. MARCY, Secretary afSlale. No. 40. Respecting an apprehended Invasion of Mcaragm. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Dec. 8, 1855. A PROCLAMATION. Wumknns information has been received by me that sundry persons, citizens of the United States and others, residents therein, are preparing, within the jurisdiction of the same, to enlist, or enter themselves, or to lure or retain others to participate in militar operations within the State of Nicaragua: Now, therefore, I, IKRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States, do warn all persons against connecting themselves with any such enterprise or