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Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Haytian President Boyer proclaims end to ban on foreign trade from April 15, 1826, following independence recognition; allows commerce with friendly nations but prohibits it with certain colonies and U.S. Carolinas, permits trade with St. Thomas and Curacoa.
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LIBERTY.
EQUALITY.
REPUBLIC OF HAYTI
PROCLAMATION.
Jean Pierre Boyer, President of Hayti.
The motives which induced this government to forbid all intercourse between its vessels and foreign countries being no longer in existence, since, by the acknowledgment of our independence and the establishment in Hayti of Consuls from several powers, the Haytien flag can appear on the high seas with that respectability which the laws of nations guarantee, we declare that from the 15th inst. our proclamation of the 20th of March shall be revived, in order that the citizens of Hayti, in carrying on commerce with foreign countries, may enjoy all the advantages which they have a right to expect.
Therefore, our vessels may navigate the high seas and trade with the countries that are on terms of friendship with the republic, taking care strictly to observe the laws of nations.
Nevertheless, our determination to avoid most scrupulously every occasion of umbrage to other governments, in relation to the internal police of their colonies, requires that we should renew once more, by these presents, our express prohibition to Haytien vessels to go to the islands and colonies belonging to those governments, as well to North and South Carolina in the United States of America.
Nevertheless, in conformity with the wish formerly expressed by the governments of St. Thomas and Curacoa, that our commercial relations should continue on their ancient footing, and now that we can reply to those friendly advances without endangering the honor of the National flag, we authorize Haytien vessels to trade freely with the said islands of St. Thomas and Curacoa.
This proclamation shall be printed and published wherever it shall be necessary, and inserted for three months in the Official Gazette. The authorities both civil and military will conform thereto.
Given at the National Palace of Port au Prince this first day of April, 1826, in the twenty-third year of our independence.
BOYER.
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Hayti
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1826 04 01
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proclamation revives trade with foreign countries from april 15, 1826, prohibits trade with certain colonies and north/south carolina, authorizes trade with st. thomas and curacoa.
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President Boyer issues proclamation lifting prior ban on intercourse with foreign countries due to recognition of Haytian independence and establishment of consuls, allowing Haytien vessels to navigate high seas and trade with friendly nations while observing laws of nations; prohibits trade with colonies of other governments and North/South Carolina; authorizes free trade with St. Thomas and Curacoa.