820 APPENDIX. tho same from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States, and to continue so lon as the reciprocal exemption of vessgls gthlosgiug to cgizcgs of; the Uniteci States and their c ues, as oresai , s o continue an no on er: "Xud whereas satisfactory evidence has lately basin received by me from his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, thronggh an odicial communication of his Magosty’s Minister of Foreign Relations, un cr date of the tenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and six?-six, that I10 other or higher duties of tonnage and impost are imposed or levie in the norm of the Hawaiian Islands upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the niwd States, and upon the groduce, munufhctures, or merchandise imported in the same fiom the United tates, and from any foreign country whatever, than are levied on Hawaiian slugs and their cargfos in 0 same ports under like circumstances: Acts imposing ow, therefore, , ANDREW Jomisou, President of the United States of diwiminating America, do hereby declare and proclaim that so much of the several acts 2E2f13S?;' t imposing discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States within me m are, and snail be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of gd 5;,,;,, to be the Hawaiian Islands, and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported suspended as re- into the United States in the same from the domiuious of the Hawaiian Islands,
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.Islmds $3** from the sand tenth day of December, and to continue thenccforward, so long mei, cugwih as the reciprocal exemption, of the yessels of the United States, and the from December gcduce, manufactures, and merchandise im rted into the dominions of the 10, A. D. 1866, awaiian Islands in the same, as aforesaid, sbssfbe continued on the part of the ““‘2n*°&‘:;’n*i¤¤° government of his Majes? the King of the Hawaiian Islands. u" ’ ‘ Irhtes:;i?<§1gér§h:gc§£ £1av;; hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of e m o xc . Done at the city of Washington, the twenty-ninth day of January, m the year of our Lord ono ousaud eybt hundred and sixty-seven, and [SEAL.] ga the Independence of the Unite States of America the ninety- t.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
t o President: y Wxuum H. Smwmzn, Secretary of State. N0. 9. Nmh L 1967- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. Wumssg tlncfgngxiess of fg1C United itatfs ¢§dhby ag act apfroved can the nincteent a 0 ri , one t 0usa.n ci t un rc an sixt - our, authorizc the people ofytbo Tgrritory of Ncbraskagto form u. constitution and State goverment, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footin with the original States, u u certain conditions in said act specified; ang whereas said people did ulgacpt a. constitution conforming to the provisions and conditions of said uct, and ask admission into the Union; and whereas the Congress of the United States did, 011 the eighth and ninth days of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in mode prescribed by the Constitution, pass u iiiythor act for the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union, in which last-named act it was rovided. that it should not take eifoct except upon the fundamental condition that within the State of Nebraska there should bo no denial of the elective franchise or of any other right to any person by reason of noo or color, excepting Indians not taxed, and upon the further undsp mental condition that the legislature of said State, by a. solemn public uct, should declare the assent of said State to the said fundamental condition, and should transmit to the President of the United States an authenticated copy of said act of the legislature of said State, ugon receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, should forthwith announce t o fact, whereupon said fundamental condition should be held as a. part of the or anic law of the State, and thereupon, and without any further proceeding on tic part of Congress, the admission ox
