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 ·7S2 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. NOS. 27, 28. same, from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take eifect 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. Reciting acts And whereas, satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me from His of M°°ld°¤b¤*‘S Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mechlenberg Schwerin, through an oincial S°hw°m" communication of Leon Herckenrath, his consul at Charleston, in the United States, under date of the thirteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-tive, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the Grand Duchy of Mechlenberg Schwerin, 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. Digcrimhmin Now, therefore, I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United States dmés on vessel? of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that the foreign discriminating and cargoes of duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be sus— Mechlvubcrg pended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the Grand Duchy of S°h“’°““¤ Sus' Mechlenberg Schwerin, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, im~ §§tIg1f’ri§1·°1n§35 ported into the United States, in the same, from the said Grand Duchy, or from P ’any other foreign country; the said suspension to take eifect from the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, above mentioned, 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 lonuer. u Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. s.] thirty-five, and of the independence of the United States the fifty- ninth. ANDREW JACKSON. BY rms PRESIDENT : JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. No. 28. Suspending discriminating Duties as to Tuscany. Sept. 1, 1836. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Preamble re- Wnnnnns, by an act of Congress of the United States, of the twenty-fourth <>_i¤i¤g 39* Kelty- of May, one thousand eivht hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act in addi- ’*“’9 *° dd*sFl“m" tion to an act entitled ‘ An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and mting "mes" impost,' andto equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes,” it is 1828· ch' HL provided, that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the _ United States, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating V°l‘ W' p' 30S' 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 hereby 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 faras 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 notihcation being given to the President of the United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonmng to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer. Rggifing am And whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me, from the of Tuscany. government of His Imperial and Ro al Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscanv, through an official communication ofy Baron Lederer, the Consul·General of His Imperial and Royal Highness in the United States, under date of the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, that no discriminating