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  • That no person or persons whomsoever be permitted or Licensed to have any intercourse of Trade to accadie or Nova Scotia or to any part or parts thereof or places adjacent any thing in y°. aforerecited act notwithstanding.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • America, do hereby declare and proclaim that all persons hereafter found within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States committing any of the aforerecited violations of law or any similar violations of the sovereignty of the United States for which punishment is provided by law will be rigorously prosecuted therefor, and, upon conviction and sentence to punishment, will not be entitled to expect or receive the clemency of the Executive to save them from the consequences of their guilt; and I enjoin upon every officer of this Government, civil or military or naval, to use all efforts in his power to arrest for trial and punishment every such offender against the laws providing for the performance of our sacred obligations to friendly powers.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant 1878

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