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
belonging wholly 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 thereon laden shall be continued,
and no longer; and
Whereas satisfactory evidence has been received by me from His Britannic
Majesty, as King of Hanover, through the Right Honorable Charles Richard
Vaughan, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, that
vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or merchandise
the produce or manufacture thereof imported in such vessels are not nor
shall be on their entering any Hanoverian port subject to the payment of
higher duties of tonnage or impost than are levied on Hanoverian ships
or merchandise the produce or manufacture of the United States imported
in such vessels:
Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and proclaim that so much of the several acts
imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels and on goods, wares,
and merchandise imported into the United States as imposed a
discriminating duty of tonnage between the vessels of the Kingdom of
Hanover and vessels of the United States and between goods imported into
the United States in vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover and vessels of
the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as the same
respect the produce or manufacture of the said Kingdom of Hanover, the
said suspension to take effect this day and to continue henceforward so
long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States and
of the merchandise laden therein as aforesaid shall be continued in the
ports of the Kingdom of Hanover.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 1st day of July, A.
D. 1828, and the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United
States.
John Quincy Adams.
By the President:
H. Clay,
_Secretary of State_.
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