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1130 APPENDIX. [L. s.] Lord one thousand eight hundred anu sixty-riine, and of the Independence of the United States os'Amcr1ca the mnetyi§`o¤§rhGRANT By tho President: HAmu.r0N Fxsu, Secretary of State. No. 8. BY_THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Nov. 20, 1869. A PROCLAMATION. Wmcmms by the proclamation of che President of the United States of the Preamble. twelfth day of June last, the levying of discriminating duties on merchandise 4****0- V- imported into the United States in French vessels from the countries of its origin was discontinued ; And whereas satisfactory information has since been received by me that the levying of such duties on all merchandise imported into France in vessels of the United States, whether from the countries of its origin or from other countries, has been discontinued : Now, therefore, I, Ur.Yssr·:a S. GRANT, President of the United States of D}w‘l¤1i¤Mi¤z America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by an act of Congress of the {:3;; :°::·"r;‘;° seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-bur, and by cm,_ndiS§im_an act. in addition therem of the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight pormdin F,-mcg, hundred and t.wenLy-eight, do hereby declare and proclaim that on and after vessels discun- this date, so long as merchandise imported into France in vessels of the United unugd as long States, whether from the countries 0I' its origin or from other countries. shall be ‘"ib24°‘ch_ 4 §4 admitted into the ports of France on the terms aforesaid, the discriminating volt iv_ pf3_duties lneretofbre levied upon merchandise impomul imo the United States in 1828, eh. 111,§1. French vessels, either Hom the countries of its origin or {Tom any oxher country, Vol. iv. p. 308. shall be, and are, discontinued and abolished. In twimony whereoi I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States t0_be affixed. Done at the city of \Vushington, this twentieth day of November, in the [L. s.] year of our .0rd one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-fourth. B th P d U. S. GRANT. y c resident: Hsmuou Fxsu, Secretary afS1ate. No. 9. Feb. 10,18T0. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Preamble, WHEREAS, pursuant to the first section of the act of Con ress approved the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty§0ur, entitled "An act jo provide for the execution of treaties between the United States and foreign nations respecting consular urisdiution over the crews of vessels of such foreign nations in the waters and ports of the United Staten," it is provided that before thas act shall take eH`ecb as to the ships and vessels of any particular 18g`;!? ?; I n:-mon having such treatyiwith the united States: the President of the United » ,,3 A · States shall have been satnshed that similar provisions have been made for the Vol. xm. p. 121. · . _ dccmcd to be in egecution of such treaty by the other contracting party, anal shall have issued. {@,,8 ,,8 u, the hsproclsmatxon to that effect, declaring that act to be in force as to such ships and vessels nation;