Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 24th of
May, 1828, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act
concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,' and to equalize
the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," 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 in the ports of the
said nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United
States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in
the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the
President is thereby 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 foreign nation and the produce,
manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States in the same
from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, 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 their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no
longer; and
Whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me from His
Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, through an official
communication of F.A. Mensch, his consul in the United States, under
date of the 15th of September, 1830, that no discriminating duties of
tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the Grand
Dukedom of Oldenburg upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the
United States or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported
in the same from the United States or from any other country:
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and proclaim that so much of the several acts
imposing 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 Grand Dukedom of Oldenburg and the produce,
manufactures, and merchandise imported into the United States in the
same from the Grand Dukedom of Oldenburg and from any other foreign
country whatever, the said suspension to take effect from the day above
mentioned and to continue thenceforward so long as the reciprocal
exemption of the vessels of the United States and the produce,
manufactures, and merchandise imported into the Grand Dukedom of
Oldenburg in the same, as aforesaid, shall be continued on the part of
the Government of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 18th day of
September, A.D. 1830, and the fifty-fifth of the Independence of the
United States.