Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 7th of
January, 1824, entitled "An act concerning discriminating duties of
tonnage and impost," 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
wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon merchandise
the produce or manufacture thereof imported in the same, 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 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 therein laden shall be continued,
and no longer; and
Whereas satisfactory evidence was given to the President of the United
States on the 30th day of May last by Count Lucchesi, consul-general of
His Holiness the Pope, that all foreign and discriminating duties of
tonnage and impost within the dominions of His Holiness, so far as
respected the vessels of the United States and the merchandise of their
produce or manufacture imported in the same, were suspended and
discontinued:
Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States,
conformably to the fourth section of the act of Congress aforesaid, do
hereby proclaim and declare 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 subjects of His
Holiness the Pope and the merchandise of the produce or manufacture of
his dominions imported into the United States' in the same, the said
suspension to take effect from the 30th of May aforesaid and to continue
so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of
the United States and merchandise as aforesaid therein laden shall be
continued, and no longer.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 7th day of June, A.
D. 1827, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-first.
John Quincy Adams.
By the President:
H. Clay,
_Secretary of State_.
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By the President of the United States.