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 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. N0s. 28, 29, 30. 783 duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied, in the ports of Tuscany, 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. Now, therefore, I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United States of Declares me America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that the foreign discriminating duties discriminating of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be suspended and dutlesfzéu if discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the Grand Dukedom of Tuscany, Q;?;? ?,·usigD;` and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the United States suspended_ ` in the same, `from the said Grand Dukedom, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the sixth day of August, one thousand From 6th Aueight hundred and thirty-six, above mentioned, and to continue so long as the gustr 1836* reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the first day of Sep- - tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L- Bil thirty-six, and of the independence of the United States the sixty- first. r ANDREW JACKSON. BY Tum PRESIDENT: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. No. 29. Oonvening an extra Session of Congress. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. May 15, 1887. A PRO CLAMATION. WHEREAS great and weiuhty matters claiming the consideration of the Con- Congress to gross of the United States, form an extraordinary occasion for convening them, °°“"§;‘° gn lll° do, by these presents, appoint the first Monday of September next, for their ggstterxesy m meeting at the city of Washington; hereby requiring the respective senators P ` and representatives, then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications as may then be made to them, and to consult, and determine on such measures as in their wisdom may be deemed meet for the welfare of the United States. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto afiixed, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, the hfteenth day of May, in the year of [L S] our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and of the `independence of the United States the sixty-first. MARTIN VAN BUREN. BY THE PRESIDENT: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. No. 30. Suspending Tonnage Duty on Greek Vessels. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. June 14, 1837. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by the third section of the act of Congress of the United States, Preamble that of the thirteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled President is au- "An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels," it is provided, that when- Fh°“Z“d m ’·%°l' ever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating duties or counter- t°“"°'g° u" vailing duties of tonnave levied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of 18,2 ch 20, the United States, shall? have been abolished, he may direct that the tonnage V 1 .’5,,é duty on the vessels of such nation shall cease to be levied in the ports of the Ow' p` ' United States: