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between the United States and the British possessions in Europe is 

 expressly deah with, the British possessions in America are not 

 provided for. The treaty of 1794, as to commercial privileges, 

 provided that it should 



not extend to the admission of vessels of the United States 

 into the seaports, harbours, bays or creeks of His Majesty's 

 said territories in America. 



When the convention of 1818 was framed an attempt was 

 made to place the commercial intercourse between the two coun- 

 tries upon a permanent basis, but that attempt proved abortive. 

 It was not until 1830 that the negotiations carried on by President 

 Jackson, through Mr. McLane on the part of the United States, 

 and Lord Aberdeen on the part of Great Britain, resulted in an 

 arrp.ngement which, up to the present, governs the commercial 

 "nterconrse between the United States and His Majesty's British 

 North American possessions. This is embodied in a proclamation 

 of the President, and in an order in council of the British Gov- 

 ernment. 



The proclamation, after recital, directs that: 



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.^ 



The order in council is in the following terms : 



And His Majesty doth further, by the advice aforesaid, 

 and in the pursuance of the powers aforesaid, declare that the 

 sliips of and belonging to the United States of America may 

 import from the United States aforesaid, into the British 

 possessions abroad, goods, the produce of those states, and 

 may export goods from the British possessions abroad, to be 

 carried to any foreign country whatever,^ 



This latter order in council of 1830 was passed under the 

 authority of the Imperial Act of 1825, ch. 114, but a perusal of 



^'Congressional Debates, 1830, p. CXCI. 

 ^Ibid.. p. CXCIII. 



