CIRCULAR TO THE COLLECTORS.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
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.March 18th, 1927.
Sin scnd herewith. copy of the Presidents
frocla,naton, dated this day by the effect Of which
you will perceive that the trade between the Uni
ted States and certain colonial ports of Great
Britain, as opened by the act Of Congress, of the
first of March, 1923, entitled j" An act to regu-
late the commercial intercourse between the Uni
ted States and certain British colonial ports, is
closed and that the provisions of the act of A.
pril the eighteenth, 1918, entitled "An act con-
cerning Navigation,' and those of the act of May
the fifteenth, 1920, entitled an act, supplementary
to an act entitled An act concerning Navigation,'"
are in force. These several acts have heretofore
been transmitted to you at periods when their pro-
visions were in operation, but copies Of them are
again enclosed for your information and govern
ment.


AS British vessels from some of the colonial
ports specified in the first section of the act of the
first OF March, 1898, may now be within the United
States. and consequently, must have arrived ante
ror to the date of the Proclamation, the President
directs, that all such British vessels be allowed to
depart from our ports with their cargoes. As 9TH
ers may arrive between the date of the Proclama-
ton, and the time Of its reaching you, he also d-
rects, that, to these, the forfeitures and penal
ties of the aforesaid acts of April the 18th, 1878,
and May the 18th, 1920, be not enforced: but that
they. too, be permitted to depart. And if, after
you shall have received the Proclamation, British
vessels should arrive within the ports of the United
States from some one or more of the said British
Colonial ports, in ignorance of the existing prohi-
bition, which the laws impose to their entry, the
President further directs, that, in the case of all
British vessels arriving prior to the first day Of
July next, you cause notice to be given to them, as
soon as possible, of the prohibitions accompanied by
orders for their departure within twenty tour hours
without unlading; upon their failure to comply
with which orders, you will proceed to enforce
against them the provisions of the acts last rected.
In case Of all British vessels arriving within our
ports, from any Of the aforesaid British colonial
ports, after the first Of July, you will. forthwith
enforce against them the provisions Of those acts.
/ have the honor to remain,


Your obedent servant,


RICHARD IRISH