June 3, 1829.
Proclamation.Ante, p. 30S.
Sept. 18, 3830.
In pursuance of the authority contained in the act of May 24, 1828, ch. Ill,ante, p. 308, the act of January 7, 1824, ch. 2, ante, p. 2, proclamations havebeen issued by the President of the United States , as follow:
By the Pbesident of the United States of America :PROCLAMATION:
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 24th of May,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “ An Act in addition toan act, entitled ‘ An act concerning discriminating duties of Tonnage and Im-post,’ and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes,” it isprovided that, upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of theUnited States , by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminatingduties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the said nation,upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States , or upon theproduce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported in the same from the UnitedStates , or from any foreign country, the President is thereby authorized to issuehis proclamation declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnageand impost within the United States are, and shall be, suspended and discon-tinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the pro-duce, manufactures or merchandise, imported into the United States in thesame from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country ; the saidsuspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to thePresident of the United States , and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemp-tion of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States , and their cargoes, asaforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer.
And whereas, satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me, from hisImperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria , through an official communicationof the Baron de Lederer, his Consul General in the United States , under dateof the 29th of May, 1829, that no other or higher duties of tonnage and impostare imposed or levied since the first day of January last in the ports of Aus-tria, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States , and uponthe produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from theUnited States, and from any foreign country whatever, than are levied on Aus-trian ships and their cargoes, in the same ports under like circumstances.
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States ofAmerica , do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts im-posing discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States ,are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels ofAustria , and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise, imported into theUnited States in the same, from the dominions of Austria , and from any otherforeign country whatever, the said suspension to take effect from the day abovementioned, and to continue thenceforward, so long as the reciprocal exemp-tion of the vessels of the United States , and the produce, manufactures, andmerchandise imported into the dominions of Austria , in the same as aforesaid,shall be continued on the part of the government of His Imperial Majesty theEmperor of Austria .
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this third day of June,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and thefifty-third of the Independence of the United States .
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States , of the 24th ofMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “ An Act in addi-814
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