...sufficiency. — In a prosecution against a vessel for violating the laws of the United States prohibiting commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, evidence by two witnesses that they were at a port of San Domingo and saw lying there a schooner called...

...submit to the late Edicts of Great Britain and France." On the 2d, the Senate resolved "to interdict commercial intercourse between the United States and...Great Britain and France and their dependencies," which carried letters of marque and reprisal. The affirmative vote, in which the Senators from New...

...tenth, eleventh, seventeenth, and eighteenth sections of the act, entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and...Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for no other purposes," shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress :...

...de sions under the non-intercourse acts is in US Slat, at Large, II., 528. An ACT to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and...Great Britain and France, and their dependencies; and for other purposes. Be it enacted . . . , That from and after the passing of this act, the entrance...

...second Monday in December next. The act of March 1, 1809 (C. 24, 2 Stat. 528), again prohibited all commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies. Section 1 1 of that act provided: That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized,...

...to their disagreement to the amendments of the Senate, to the bill, entitled " An act respecting the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and for other purposes." The House of Representatives have passed a bill, entitled " An act to examine...

...Whereas by the fourth section of the act of Congress passed on the 1st day of May 1810, entitled "An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the...and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," it is provided "that in case either Great Britain or France shall before the...

...immediate direction of the President,4 and in 1809 a more specific interdiction was adopted prohibiting all commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies,5 while permitting commercial intercourse by ships owned by citizens of other countries...

...deliberations of Congress, make it a primary duty in meeting you, to communicate whatever may have occurred m that branch of our national affairs. The act of the...edicts against our neutral commerce, copies of the act were immediately forwarded to our ministers at London and Paris, with a view that its object might...

...and also the 3d section of the act entitled " An act supplementary to til e act entitled '« An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the...and Great Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purposes," be and the same are hereby repealed. iv J jj 'ii TU .- i- \ And on the question...