United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/Appendices/Appendix 3/Proclamation 3
By the President of the United States of America:
PROCLAMATION:[1]
Proclamation.
Ante, p. 2.Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, of the seventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An Act concerning discriminating duties of Tonnage and Imposts,” it is provided that, upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied within the ports of the said nation, upon vessels belonging wholly to citizens of the United States, or upon merchandise, the produce or manufacture thereof, imported in the same, the President is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States, are, and shall be suspended, and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said nation, and the merchandise of its produce or manufacture imported into the United States in the same; 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 long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and merchandise, as aforesaid, thereon laden, shall be continued, and no longer.
Discriminating duties suspended on Hanoverian vessels.And whereas, satisfactory evidence has been received by me, from His Britannic Majesty, as King of Hanover, through the right Honourable Charles Richard Vaughan, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, that vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or merchandise, the produce or manufacture thereof, imported in such vessels, are not, nor shall be, on their entering any Hanoverian port, subject to the payment of higher duties of tonnage or impost, than are levied on Hanoverian ships, or merchandise, the produce or manufacture of the United States, imported in such vessels.
Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage, between the vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover, and vessels of the United States, between goods imported into the United States, in vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover, and vessels of the United States, are suspended and discontinued, so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said Kingdom of Hanover; the said suspension to take effect this day, and to continue henceforward so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States and the merchandise laden therein as aforesaid shall be continued in the ports of the Kingdom of Hanover.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this first day of July, 1828, and the fifty-second of the Independence of the United States.
By the President:
Henry Clay, Secretary of State.
- ↑ Act of January 7, 1824, ch. 4, page 2.