United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/Appendices/Appendix 1/Proclamation 2
2. Respecting Trade in Plaster of Paris with New Brunswick.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
The Regulations, in the Province of New Brunswick, prohibiting the exportation of plaster of Paris to certain ports of the U. States, discontinued.
1817, ch. 39.Whereas it appears, by a proclamation of the lieutenant governor of his Britannic majesty’s province of New Brunswick, bearing date the tenth day of April last, and officially communicated by his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, residing in the United States, to this government, that the regulations on the subject of the trade in plaster of Paris, prohibiting the exportation thereof to certain ports of the United States, which were in force in the said province at the time of the enactment of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “An Act to regulate the trade in plaster of Paris,” passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, have been and are discontinued:
Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States, do hereby declare that fact, and that theThe Restrictions imposed by the Act of Congress cease. restrictions imposed by the said act of Congress shall, from the date hereof, cease and be discontinued in relation to the said province of New Brunswick.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States.
By the President.
Secretary of State.