Case No. 11,391.

PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION DECLARED ILLEGAL.

[2 Niles' Reg. 216.]

Circuit Court, D. North Carolina.

May 30, 1812.

NON-INTERCOURSE—PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT.

MARSHALL, Circuit Justice, decided, in the circuit court of North Carolina, that the proclamation of the president of the United States of the 9th August, 1809 (after the disavowal of Erskine's arrangement), interdicting commerce with Great Britain, was not legal.

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