UNITED STATES. 



STATUTES. 



JOINT RESOLUTION OF JANUARY 18, 1865. 

 (13 Stat. L., Resolutions, No. 6.) 



JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the termination of the reciprocity treaty of 

 fifth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, between the United States and Great 

 Britain. 



Whereas it is provided in the reciprocity treaty concluded at Wash- 

 ington, the fifth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, between 

 the United States of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland of the other part, that this treaty "shall remain 

 in force for ten years from the date at which it may come into opera- 

 tion, and further, until the expiration of twelve months after either 

 of the high contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its 

 wish to terminate the same;" and whereas it appears, by a procla- 

 mation of the President of the United States, bearing date sixteenth 

 of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, that the treaty came into 

 operation on that dav; and whereas, further, it is no longer for the 

 interests of the United States to continue the same in force: Therefore, 



Resolved by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That notice be given of the 

 termination of the reciprocity treaty, according to the provision 

 therein contained for the termination of the same; and the President 

 of the United States is hereby charged with the communication of 

 such notice to the government of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Approved January 18, 1865. 



JOINT RESOLUTION OF MARCH 3, 1883. 



(22 Stat. L., Resolutions, No. 22.) 



(No. 22.) JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the termination ofarticles numbered 

 eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty 



liMwciTi 1 1 1 *• I'liiii-'l States (if America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at 

 Washington, Maj eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of /Representatives of the United 

 States of Amrriea in Congress assembled, That in the judgment of 

 Congress the provisions of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, 

 inclusive, and of article thirty of the treaty between the United 

 States and Her Britannic Majesty, for an amicable settlement of nil 

 causes of difference between the two countries, concluded at Wash- 

 ington on (he eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and 

 seventy-one, ought (<> be terminated ;ii the earliest possible time, 

 and be no longer in force; and t<> this end the President l><', and he 

 hereby is, directed to ^ive not \<-c (<> (lie ( loveninieiit of I ler Britannic 



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