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denied any of the privileges therein accorded to the vessels, their 

 masters or crews, of the most favored nation, or unjustly vexed or 

 harassed in respect of the same, or unjustly vexed or harassed therein 

 by the authorities thereof, then, and in either or all of such cases, it 

 shall be lawful, and it shall be the duty of the President of the United 

 States, in his discretion, by proclamation to that effect, to deny ves- 

 sels, their masters and crews, of the British dominions of North Amer- 

 ica, any entrance into the waters, ports, or places of, or within the 

 United States (with such exceptions in regard to vessels in distress, 

 stress of weather, or needing supplies as to the President shall seem 

 proper), whether such vessels shall have come directly from said 

 dominions on such destined vc^age or by way of some port or place 

 in such destined voyage elsewhere; and also, to deny entry into any 

 port or place of the United States of fresh fish or salt fish or any other 

 product of said dominions, or other goods coming from said dominions 

 to the United States. The President may, in his discretion, apply 

 such proclamation to any part or to all of the foregoing-named subjects, 

 and may revoke, qualify, limit, and renew such proclamation from 

 time to time as he may deem necessary to the full and just execution of 

 the purposes of this act. Every violation of any such proclamation, 

 or any part thereof, is hereby declared illegal, and all vessels and goods 

 so coming or being within the waters, ports, or places of the Lmited 

 States contrary to such proclamation shall be forfeited to the United 

 States; and such forfeiture shall be enforced and proceeded upon in 

 the same manner and with the same effect as in the case of vessels 

 or goods whose importation or coming to or being in the waters or 

 ports of the United States contrary to law may now be enforced and 

 proceeded upon. Every person who shall violate any of the provis- 

 ions of this act, or such proclamation of the President made in pur- 

 suance hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on con- 

 viction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thou- 

 sand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, 

 or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. 



Approved, March 3, 1887. 



PROCLAMATIONS. 



PROCLAMATION OF JANUARY 14, 1784, RELATING TO THE TREATY 



OF SEPTEMBER 3, 1783. 



BY THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. 

 A PROCLAM \TION. 



Whereas definitive articles of peace and friendship between the 

 United States of America and bis Britannic majesty were concluded 

 and signed at Paris on the third day of September, L783, by the 

 plenipotentiaries of the said United States and of bis said Britannic 

 majesty, duly and respectively authorized for that purpose, which 

 definitive articles are in the words following. 



[Here follow the articles of the treaty.] 



And we. the United States in Congi jembled, having seen and 



duly considered the definil Lve articles aforesaid, did, bj ;i certain act, 



