WO? APPENDIX. _ Sazssrmory cv- And whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by mc, from his "l°"?° ,'·**°' ”° Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, thrcurrh an official communication of Mr. Fe·
M lippe Jose Pereira Lea], his charge dgtfaires in the United States, under date
on ,,,50;; of me of the 25th of October, 1847, that no other or higher duties of tonnage and United Stntcs in impcet are imposed or levied in the ports of Brazil upon vessels wholly belong- QM P<>¤¤ ¤f Bm- ing to citizens of the United States, and upon the produce, manufactures, or "L merchandise imported in the same from the United States, and from any foreign country wlratever, than are levied on Brazilian ships and their cargoes in the same ports under like circnmmnncee: Discrimirming Now, therefore, I, James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, 5i¤ii¢¤ vn Bmrl- do hereby declare und proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing dis-
- 2. “’”“" “"d criminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are, and
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- 5£'g°°” ’"°‘ shall be, suspended and discontinued so far es respects the vessels of Brazil,
` and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported into the United States in the same, from Brazil and from any other foreign country whatever, From 25th Oc- the said suspension to take effect from the day above mentioned, and to conwbcr, 1911 tinue thenceforward so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States, and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported into Brazil in the spine as aforesaid, shall be continued on the part of the government of Brazi Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- seven, and the seventy-second of the Independence of the United States. JAMES K. POLK. By the President. James Bvcmnm, Surrctaqy of Stale. 6. W}¤ZdxaIl,.NZ IC,madc aPorl,wfH• Privileges oflhawback. Br rm: Przssrnzxr or wu: Umrzv Sums. March 2, 1mg_ A PROCLAHATION. ?¤’¢¤¤¤l>l¤- Wnznns, by an act of the Congress of the United States of the tenth 1849 eh_ It January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled “An Act to extend certain ' privileges to the town of \Vhiteha1.l, in the State of New Yorl·r," the President of the United States, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to extend to the town of Whitehall the same privileges as_ are conferred on certain ports named in the seventh section of an act entitled “ An Act allowing drawback upon foreign merchandise exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico, and to the British - orth American provinces adjoining the United States} passed third March, eighteen hurédred and fortydive, in the manner prescribed by the proviso contained in sai section. And whereas the Secretary of the Treasury has duly recommended to me the extension of the privileges of the law aforesaid to the port of \Vh1t.elml1, Pdvu as of in the collection district of Champlain, in the State of New York: amwbacfump _ Now, therefore, I, James K. Polk, President of the llmted States of Anterded to rg .,5 xox, do hereby declare and proclaim that the port Wlntehall, in thepollectnon Whitebag? N. Y. district of Champlain, in the State of New York, as and shall be entitled to all the privileges extended to the other ports enumerated in the seventh section of the act aforesaid, from and alter the date of this proclamation. tbldjwiétzdess whereofbl baveegsereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of e ni to atlix . Done at the city of Washirpigton, this second day of March, in the year of [L SJ our Lord one tlxousan e§ht hundred and forty-nine, and of the independence of the United tutes of America the ejeveng-thidi)0LK‘ By the President. Inns Booman, See-et¤·y of Sd:.
