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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the United States
of America assembled, That war be and the same is hereby declared
to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and
their territories; and that the President of the United States is
hereby authorized to use the whole land and naval force of the
United States to carry the same into effect, and to issue to
private armed vessels of the United States commissions or letters
of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think
proper, and under the seal of the United States, against the
vessels, goods, and effects of the government of the said United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the subjects thereof.
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