You will therefore consider your powers as revoked on the receipt of this letter.

A decree, however, of the National Assembly subjecting vessels laden with provisions to be carried into their ports and making enemy goods lawful prize in the vessel of a friend, contrary to our treaty, though revoked at one time as to the United States, has been since extended to their vessels also, as has been recently stated to us.

The requirement was that the Constitution should be revoked before the 1st of January.

Wills can be revoked in whole or in part, only by being canceled or destroyed by the act or direction of the testator with the intention of so revoking them, or by the execution of subsequent wills.

I know that contracts are revoked with the full approval of the Courts and of the public, though I hardly know why.