Editing Embargo Act of 1807 (section)

===Other supplements to Act===
On March 12, 1808, Congress passed and Jefferson signed into law yet another supplement to the Embargo Act. It<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/10th-congress.php|title=Statutes at Large: Congress 10 {{!}} Law Library of Congress|date=September 2014|website=www.loc.gov|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref> prohibited for the first time all exports of any goods, whether by land or by sea. Violators were subject to a fine of $10,000, plus forfeiture of goods, per offense. It granted the President broad discretionary authority to enforce, deny, or grant exceptions to the embargo.{{r|adams|p=144}} Port authorities were authorized to seize cargoes without a [[warrant (law)|warrant]] and to try any shipper or merchant who was thought to have merely contemplated violating the embargo.

Despite the added penalties, citizens and shippers openly ignored the embargo. Protests continued to grow and so the Jefferson administration requested and Congress rendered yet another embargo act.