Nous avons ordonné et ordonnons ce qui suit:

Art. I. Il est défendu à tout Armateur et Capitaine Français, d'employer et d'affrêter les navires qui leur appartiennent ou qu'ils commandent, à transporter des Esclaves, quelles que soient l'origine desdits, Esclaves et la Nation au pouvoir de laquelle il sont tombés, et pour quelque lieu qu'ils soient destinés.

II. Les Officiers commandant nos bâtimens arrêteront tout navire Français à bord duquel des passagers, traités comme Esclaves, se trouveraient; ils les feront conduire et débarquer le plus promptement qu'il sera possible, au premier Port où la sûreté et la liberté de ces Individus seront parfaitement garanties.

Lesdits Commandans adresseront à notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat de la Marine et des Colonies un Rapport, signé des principaux Officiers de l'Etat-Major, sur les circonstances de l'arrestation du navire et du débarquement des Passagers; ils joindront à ce Rapport l'interrogatoire qu'ils auront fait subir au Capitaine, aux Officiers, à l'équipage et aux passagers.

III. Si un de nos Consuls, ou un Agent Consulaire de France est en résidence dans le Port où lesdits Passagers auront été débarqués, il sera procédé, par lui, à l'interrogatoire prescrit ci-dessus, en présence d'un ou deux Officiers du bâtiment qui aura arrêté le navire, et de deux ou trois Français immatriculés au Consulat.

IV. Le Capitaine du navire qui aura été arrêté comme étant en contravention à la présente Ordonnance, recevra l'ordre de retourner dans un Port de France, aussitôt après le débarquement des Esclaves passagers.

Le signalement du Capitaine et celui du navire seront adressés, par le Consul qui aura eu le premier connaissance de la contravention, à notre Ministre Secrétaire-d'Etat de la Marine et des Colonies, et à tous nos Consuls en Levant et en Barbarie.

La cause de l'expulsion du navire et du Capitaine sera notée, soit par l'Officier commandant le bâtiment qui aura arrêté le navire, soit par le Consul de France, sur la Commission du Capitaine, sur le rôle d'équipage, l'acte de francisation et le congé de mer.

V. Tout Capitaine qui aura contrevenu à la presente Ordonnance, sera interdit pour toujours, de la faculté de commander aucun navire Français, pour quelque destination que ce soit. Toutes poursuites sont, en outre, réservées aux propriétaires et chargeurs du navire, en raison des pertes et dommages que l'infraction commise par le Capitaine aura pu leur causer.

VI. Si le Capitaine délinquant est en même tems armateur et propriétaire du navire, l'acte de francisation et le congé de mer lui seront retirés, dès qu'il sera arrivé dans un Port de France; et ni l'Administration de la Marine, ni celle des Douanes ne pourront lui délivrer ultérieurement pour un armement quelconque, aucune des expéditions

qui constituent la nationalité d'un Navire Français, sans préjudice des poursuites qui pourraient être dirigées contre lui.

Les Agens de ces deux Administrations constateront, par un procésverbal, le retrait desdites pièces, et il en sera fait mention sur le Registres de l'Inscription Maritime.

VII. Nos Ministres Secrétaires-d'Etat des Affaires Etrangères, de la Marine et des Finances, sont chargés, chacun en ce qui le concerne, de l'exécution de la présente Ordonnance.

Donné à Paris, en notre Château des Tuileries, le 18e jour de Janvier, de l'an de grace 1823, et de notre Régne le 28e.

Par le Roi,

LOUIS.

Le Ministre Secrétaire-d'Etat au Département de la Marine et des Colonies. Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to regulate the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and other Places in America and the West Indies *"' [3 Geo. 4. Cap. 44.] [24th June, 1822.]

III. AND be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful to import into any of the Ports enumerated in the Schedule annexed to this Act, marked (A.) from any Foreign Country on the Continent of North or South America, or from any Foreign Island in the West Indies, whether such Country or Island as aforesaid shall be under the dominion of any Foreign European Sovereign or State, or otherwise, the Articles enumerated in the Schedule annexed to this Act, marked (B.), either in British-built Ships or Vessels owned and navigated according to law,or in any Ship or Vessel bond fide the built of and owned by the Inhabitants of any Country or Place belonging to or under the dominion of the Sovereign or State of which the said Articles are the growth, produce, or manufacture, such Ship or Vessel being navigated with a Master and three-fourths of the Mariners, at least, belonging to such Country or Place; or in any Britishbuilt Ship or Vessel which has been sold to and become the property of the Subjects of any such Sovereign or State, such Ship or Vessel last mentioned being also navigated with a Master and three-fourths of the Mariners, at least, belonging to such Country or Place: provided always, that no Articles enumerated in the said Schedule shall be imported in any Foreign Ship or Vessel, or in any British-built Ship or Vessel so sold as aforesaid, unless shipped and brought directly from the Country or Place of which they are the growth, produce, or manufacture.

IV. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful to export in any British-built Ship or Vessel, owned and navigated according to Law

*Repealed by Act 6 Geo. 4 cap. 105. sec. 359.

or in any Foreign Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, or in any British-built Ship or Vessel so sold as aforesaid, from any of the Ports enumerated in the Schedule annexed to this Act, marked (A.) any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of His Majesty's dominions, or any other article legally imported into the said Ports, provided that the said articles, when exported in any such Foreign Ship or Vessel, or in any British-built Ship or Vessel so sold as aforesaid, shall be exported direct to the Country or State in America, or the West Indies, to which such Ship or Vessel belongs as aforesaid, and before the Shipment thereof, security by bond shall be given to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in a penalty equal to half the value of the said articles; such bond to be entered into by the Master and Exporter before the collector or other chief officer of the customs of such colony, plantation, or island, for the due landing the said articles at the Port or Ports for which entered, and for producing a certificate thereof within 12 months from the date of such bond, under the hand and seal of the British Consul or Vice-Consul resident at the Port or Place where the said articles shall have been landed; but in case there shall not be any such Consul or Vice-Consul there resident, such certificate to be under the hand and seal of the Chief Magistrate, or under the hand and seal of two known British merchants residing at such Port or Place; but such bond may be discharged by proof on oath by credible persons, that the said articles were taken by Enemies, or perished in the Seas: provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit or allow the exportation of any arms or naval stores, unless a licence shall have been obtained for that purpose from His Majesty's Secretary of State; and in case any such articles shall be shipped or waterborne for the purpose of being exported contrary to this Act, the same shall be forfeited, and shall and may be seized and prosecuted as herein-after directed.

V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that for 10 years after the passing of this Act, nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to exclude from the trade allowed by this Act, any Foreign Ship or Vessel which, previous to the passing of this Act, may have been engaged in lawful trade with His Majesty's said Colonies, Islands, or Plantations, on account of such Ship or Vessel not being of the built of the Country to which such Ship or Vessel may belong.

XV. And whereas it is the intention and meaning of this Act, that the privileges hereby granted to Foreign Ships and Vessels shall be confined to the Ships and Vessels of such Countries only as give the like privileges to British Ships and Vessels in their Ports in America and the West Indies; be it therefore enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by Order in Council, from time to time, when and as often as the same shall be judged expedient, to

prohibit trade and intercourse under the authority of this Act, with any Country or Island in America or the West Indies, if it shall appear to His Majesty that the privileges granted by this Act to Foreign Ships and Vessels are not allowed to British Ships and Vessels trading to and from any such Country or Island under the provisions of this Act; and in case such Order of His Majesty in Council shall be issued, then during the time that such Order in Council shall be in force, none of the provisions of this Act, either as respects the Laws herein repealed, or any other provisions of this Act, shall apply or be taken to apply to any Country or State, the trade with which, under the provisions of this Act, shall be prohibited by any such Order of His Majesty in Council; and if any goods whatever shall be imported from or shipped for the purpose of being exported to any such Country or Island in America or the West Indies, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel, after trade and intercourse therewith shall have been prohibited by any such Order of His Majesty in Council, issued under the authority of this Act, all such goods, together with the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall have been imported, or in which the same shall have been shipped for the purpose of being exported as aforesaid, shall be forfeited, with all her guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel; and in every such case the same shall and may be seized by any officer of His Majesty's Customs or Navy, authorized or empowered to make seizures in cases of forfeiture, and shall and may be prosecuted in manner as herein-after directed.

XVI. And be it further enacted, that if His Majesty shall deem it expedient to extend the provisions of this Act to any Port or Ports not enumerated in the Schedule marked (A.), it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to extend the provisions of this Act to such Port or Ports; and from and after the day mentioned in such Order in Council, all the privileges and advantages of this Act, and all the provisions, penalties, and forfeitures therein contained, shall extend and be deemed and construed to extend to any such Port or Ports respectively, as fully as if the same had been inserted and enumerated in the said Schedule at the time of passing this Act.

ACT of the Congress of The United States, " to regulate the Commercial Intercourse between The United States and certain British Colonial Ports." Approved 1st March, 1823*.

SECT. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, from and after the 3d day of March next, the Ist, 2d, and 3d sections * Annulled by Proclamation of 17th March, 1827.

of the "Act concerning Navigation," approved on the 18th of April, 1818*, and the " Act supplementary to an Act concerning Naviga

*ACT of Congress "concerning Navigation." Approved 18th April, 1818. Sect. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that from and after the 30th of September next, the ports of The United States shall be and remain closed against every vessel owned wholly or in part by a subject or subjects of His Britannick Majesty, coming or arriving from any port or place in a colony or territory of His Britannick Majesty, that is or shall be, by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade, closed against vessels owned by citizens of The United States; and such vessel, that, in the course of the voyage, shall have touched at or cleared out from any port or place in a colony or territory of Great Britain, which shall or may be, by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade aforesaid, open to vessels owned by Citizens of The United States, shall, nevertheless, be deemed to have come from the port or place in the colony or territory of Great Britain, closed as aforesaid, against vessels owned by citizens of The United States, from which such vessel cleared out and sailed before touching at, and clearing out from, an intermediate and open port or place as aforesaid; and every such vessel, so excluded from the ports of The United States, that shall enter, or attempt to enter, the same, in violation of this Act, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the cargo on board such vessel, be forfeited to The United States.

II. And be it further enacted, that, from and after the aforesaid 30th of September next, the owner, consignee, or agent, of every vessel, owned wholly or in part by a subject or subjects of His Britannick Majesty, which shall have been duly entered in any port of The United States, and on board of which shall have been there laden for exportation any article or articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of The United States, other than provisions and sea stores, necessary for the voyage, shall, before such vessel shall have been cleared outward at the custom-house, give bond, in a sum double the value of such articles, with one or more suretics, to the satisfaction of the collector, that the article or articles so laden on board such vessel for exportation, shall be landed in some port or place other than a port or place in a colony or territory of His Britannick Majesty, which, by the ordinary laws of navigation and trade, is closed against vessels owned by citizens of The United States; and any such vessel that shail sail, or attempt to sail, from any port of The United States, without having complied with the provision aforesaid, by giving bond as aforesaid, shall, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with the article or articles aforesaid, laden on board the same as aforesaid, be forfeited to The United States: provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be so deemed or construed, so as to violate any provision of the Convention to regulate commerce between the territories of The United States and of His Britannick Majesty, signed the 3d of July, 1815.

III. And be it further enacted, that the form of the bond aforesaid shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury; and the same shall and may be discharged, and not otherwise, by producing, within one year after the date thereof, a like certificate to that required by and under the regulations contained in the 81st Section of the Act "to regulate the collection of duties on imports," passed the 2d day of March, 1799, that the

Revived by Proclamation of 17th March, 1827.