Macon's Act #2 killed all limitations on business with France an England. Additionally expressed that if either France or England denied its assets against the US, America would re-set up its ban against the other country.
It moved toward becoming law in the United States on May 14, 1810, was proposed to spur Great Britain and France to quit seizing American vessels amid the Napoleonic Wars. This bill was a modification of the first bill by Representative Nathaniel Macon, known as Macon's Bill Number 1.