TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 185,189,207. 1830.
419
Chap. CLXXXV _ An Ad to reduce the duty on molasses, and to allow a draw-
back on spirits distilledfromforeign materials.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtiethday of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the duty onmolasses shall be five cents for each gallon, and no more; and, from andafter that time, there shall be allowed a drawback of four cents uponevery gallon of spirits distilled in the United States or the territoriesthereof, from foreign molasses, on the exportation thereof to any foreignport or place other than the dominions of any foreign state immediatelyadjoining the United States , in the same manner and on the same con-ditions as before the tariff of May the nineteenth, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-eight.
Approved, May 29, 1830.
Chap. CLXXXIX .—An Act to reduce the duty on salt.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, the duty on salt be fif-teen cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds, from the thirty-first of Decembernext, until the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-one ; and, after that time, ten cents per bushel, and no more.
Approved, May 29, 1830.
Chap. CCVII.— An Act to amend the acts regulating the commercial intercoursebetween the United States and certain colonies of Great Britain , (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever the Presidentof the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the govern-ment of Great Britain will open the ports in its colonial possessions inthe West Indies, on the continent of South America , the Bahama Islands,the Caicos, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, to the vessels of theUnited States , for an indefinite or for a limited term; that the vessels ofthe United States and their cargoes, on entering the colonial ports afore-said, shall not be subject to other or higher duties of tonnage or impost,or charges of any other description, than would be imposed on British vessels or their cargoes, arriving in said colonial possessions from theUnited States; that the vessels of the United States may import into thesaid colonial possessions from the United States any article or articleswhich could be imported in a British vessel into the said possessions fromthe United States; and that the vessels of the United States may exportfrom the British colonies afore mentioned, to any country whatever, otherthan the dominions or possessions of Great Britain , any article or articlesthat can be exported therefrom in a British vessel, to any country otherthan the British dominions or possessions as aforesaid ; leaving the com-mercial intercourse of the United States, with all other parts of the Bri-tish dominionsor possessions, on a footing not less favourable to the UnitedStates , than it now is; and that then, and in such case, the President ofthe United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized at any time beforethe next session of Congress , to issue his proclamation, declaring that hehas received such evidence; and,thereupon, from the date of such pro-clamation, the ports of the United Slates shall be opened, indefinitely orfor a term fixed, as the case may be, to British vessels coming from the
Statute I.May 29, 1830.
Duty on mo-lasses five cents.
Drawback ondistilled spiritsfour cents.
Statute I.
May 29,1830.
Duty on saltreduced.
Statute I.May 29, 1830.