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tlie respective countries, I am au- 

 thorised to declare that his majes- 

 ty's orders in council of January 

 and November, 1807, will have 

 been withdrawn as respects the 

 United States on the ] 0th day of 

 June next. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 



D. M. Erskine. 

 Hon. Robert Smith, Sfc. Sfc. 



No. VI. 



MR. SMITH TO MR. ERSKINE. 



Department of State, April 19, 

 1809.' 

 Sir, — Having laid before the pre- 

 sident your note of this day, con- 

 taining an assurance that his Britan- 

 nic majesty will, on the 10th day 

 of June next, have withdrawn his 

 orders in council of January and 

 November, 1807, so far as respects 

 the United States, I have the ho- 

 nour of informing you that the pre- 

 sident will accordingly, and in pur- 

 suance of the eleventh section of 

 the statute commonly called the 

 Non-Intercourse act, issue a pro- 

 clamation, so that the trade of the 

 United States with Great Britain 

 may on the same day be renewed, 

 in the manner provided in the said 

 section. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) R.Smith. 



PROCLAMATION 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Whereas it is provided by the 

 11th section of the act of Con- 

 gress, intituled "An Acttointerdict 

 the commercial intercourse between 

 the United States and Great Bri- 

 tain and France and their Depen- 



dencies and for other purposes," 

 that " in case either France or 

 Great Britain shall so revoke or 

 modify her edicts, as that they shall 

 cease to violate the neutral com- 

 merce of the United States," the 

 president is authorised to declare 

 the same by proclamation, after 

 which the trade suspended by the 

 said act, and by an act laying an 

 embargo on all ships and vessels in 

 the ports and Iiarbours of the Unit- 

 ed States, and the several acts sup- 

 plementary thereto may be renew- 

 ed with the nations so doing. And 

 whereas the hon. D. M. Erskine, 

 his Britannic majesty's envoy ex- 

 traordinary and minister plenipo- 

 tentiary, has, by the order, and in 

 the name of his sovereign, declared 

 to this government that the British 

 orders in council of January and 

 November, 1807, will have been 

 withdrawn, as respects the United 

 States, on the 10th June next. 



Now, therefore, I, James Mad- 

 dison, president of the United 

 States, do hereby proclaim that the 

 orders in council aforesaid, will 

 have been withdrawn on the said 

 10th of June next; after which day 

 the trade of the United States with 

 Great Britain, as suspended by the 

 act of Congress above mentioned, 

 and an act laying an embargo on 

 all ships and vessels in the ports 

 and harbours of the United States, 

 and the several acts supplementary 

 thereto, may be renewed. 



Given under my hand and 

 seal oftheUnited States 

 at Washington, April 

 19, 1809, and 33rd of 

 the Independence of 

 the United States. 



James Maddison. 

 Declaration 



