United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 181

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4010091United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 181United States Congress

Aug. 16, 1842.

Chap. CLXXXI.—An Act requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Changes in the commercial systems of other nations to be communicated. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the Department.

Approved, August 16, 1842.