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Maps, plates, charts, etc.. may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmis d des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est film6 d partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nicessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 32X (north ami:rica. No. 2. (ises.) ^/1 PAri:RS RESPECTING TIIH TERMINATION OP TUB RECIPROCITY TREATY or JUNE 5, 1854, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. > IJ ! Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesti/. LONDOMi PRfNTKI) BT HARRISON AND SONb. li * i ^ ~ * .^ , 'ill I. <^V LIST OF PAPERS. No, 1. Mr. Adams to Earl Ruiiell One Inclosure. 2. Karl Ruiiell to Mr. Adam* Much 17, 1866 1 March 17. i i .. ! iii '•!» mi ' I i. Papers respecting the Termination of the Reciprocity Treaty of June 6, 1864, between Great Britain and the United States. %t,^ I No. 1. Mr. Adams to Earl Russell.— {Received March 17.) % ^^'„ . Legation of the United States. London, March 17, 1865. UNDER instructions from the Government of the United States, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a certi6ed copy of a joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved by the President on the 18th of January, 1865, in regard to the termination of the Treaty concluded between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty on the 5th of June, 1854, commonly known as the Reciprocity Treaty. I have the honour further to inform you that I am directed to notify Her Majesty's Government that, as it is considered no longer for the interests of the United States to continue this Treaty in force, it will terminate and be of no farther effect, as provided by the terms of the instrument, at the expiration of twelve months from the date of the reception by your Lordship of this notice. I pray, &c. (Signed) CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. Inclosure in No. 1. Joint Resolution providing for the Termination of the Reciprocity Treaty of June .'), 1854, between the United States and Great Britain. WHEREAS it is provided in the Reciprocity Treaty concluded at Washington, the 5th of June, 1854, between the United States of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irrland of the other part, that this Treaty " shall remain in force for ten years from the date at which it may come into operation : and further, until the expiration of twelve months after eitiier of the High Contracting Parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same ;" and whertas.it appears by a Proclamation of the President of the United States, bearing date 16th March, 1855, that the Treaty came into operation on that day ; and whereas, further, it is no longer for the intcresjts of the United States to continue the same in force ; therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notice be given of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty, according to the provision therein contained for the termination of the same ; and the President of the United States is hereby charged with the communication of such notice to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Approved January 18, 1865. [170] c^«fc t 50.2. I ti :\mi\ ^r* S«r/ AiwfeM