Notes on a British Commercial Treaty, [post–22 December 1815]
Notes on a British Commercial Treaty
[post–22 December 1815]
Are not British vessels, with articles of British European produce, coming from Any foreign port other than British Colonial ports, within the equalizing stipulatn.? Does not the equalization of drawbacks extend to re-exportations to a foreign nation, untill a change or diminution by the Competent authy. (Congress) be made?
Is it clear that B. Vessels arriving on the 22d. of Decr. are not embraced by the Convention?1 if doubtful, best perhaps to prefer the liberal construction.
MS (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers). In JM’s hand. Undated; conjectural date based on evidence in n. 1.
1. JM referred to the 3 July 1815 commercial convention between the United States and Great Britain, which was ratified by the United States on 21 Dec. 1815 and proclaimed by JM the following day. The proclamation, including the text of the convention, was printed in the 23 Dec. 1815 Daily National Intelligencer. JM forwarded signed copies of the proclamation to Congress on the same day (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 14A–E2).