STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1335 



ish Ports," passed on the 1st day of March, 1823, shall, in such case, 

 be suspended, or absolutely repealed, as the case may^ require : 



And whereas, by the said Act, it is further provided, that, when- 

 ever the ports of the United States shall have been opened under the 

 authority thereby given, British vessels and their cargoes shall be 

 admitted to an entry in the ports of the United States, from the 

 islands, provinces, or colonies of Great Britain, on or near the North 

 American continent, and north or east of the United States: 



And whereas satisfactory evidence has been received by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States, that, whenever he shall give effect to the 

 provisions of the Act aforesaid, the Government of Great Britain 

 will open, for an indefinite period, the ports in its colonial possessions 

 in the West Indies, on the continent of South America, the Bahama 

 Islands, the Caicos, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, to the 

 vessels of the United States, and their cargoes, upon the terms, and 

 according to the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress : 



Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States 

 of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that such evidence has 

 been received by me; and that by the operation of the Act of Con- 



fress, passed on the 29th day of May, 1830, the ports of the United 

 tates are, from the date of this proclamation, open to British 

 vessels coming from the said British possessions, and their cargoes, 

 upon the terms set forth in the said Act ; the Act, entitled "An Act 

 concerning Navigation," passed on the 18th day April, 1818, the Act 

 supplementary thereto, passed the 15th day of May, 1820. and the 

 Act, entitled "An Act to regulate the Commercial Intercourse be- 

 tween the United States and certain British Ports," passed the 1st 

 day of March, 1823, are absolutely repealed ; and British vessels, and 

 their cargoes, are admitted to an entry in the ports of the United 

 States, from the islands, provinces, and colonies of Great Britain, 

 on or near the North American continent, and north or east of the 

 United States. 



Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 5th day of 

 October, in the year of our Lord 1830, and the 55th of the independ- 

 ence of the United States. 



ANDREW JACKSON. 

 By the President: 

 M. VAN BUREN, Secretary of State. 



. 176. 186%, March 15: United States Statute, Cap. 



CHAP. XLIIL An Act for a Joint Commission for the preservation of the 



Atlantic Fisheries. 



Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Presi- 

 dent of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a Commis- 

 sioner, to meet such Commissioner as may be appointed on the part 

 of Great Britain, and also one on the part of France, together to form 

 a Joint Commission to frame measures to protect the fisheries off 



