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 APPENDIX. 1001 4. Commercial Intercoursc unlh Dem}; Wssds from Jldiquelon and SL Pierre. BY was Piuzsinmw or rm; UNITED S•n•u:s or Ammucn. A PROCLAMATION. April gg, Iggy_ Wnen¤As, by an act of the Congress of the United States, approved the third Preamble. day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled “An Act 1345 ch_55_ regulating commercial intercourse within the Islands of Miquelon and St. l Pierre," it is provided, that all French vessels coming directly from those islands, either in ballast or laden with articles the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, and which are permitted to be ex orted therefrom in American vessels, may- be admitted into the ports of the Uinited States on payment of no higher duties of manage, or on their cargoes aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes imported in American vessels, provided that this act shall not take effect until the President of the United States shall have received satisfactory infomation that similar rivileges have been allowed to American vessels and their cargoes at said islzuds by the government of France, and shall have made proclamation accordingly: And whereas satisfactory information has been received by me that similarprivileges have been sllowed to American vessels and their cargoes at said islands by the government of France: Now, therefore, I, James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, French vessels do hereby declare and proclaim that all French vessels coming directly from coming directly; the Islands of Miquelon and Saint Pierre, either in ballast or laden with arti- f"‘2‘“ * l° P°'*° ° cles the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, and which are per- 11!{;?::°:d:;5t§3 mitted to be exported therefrom in American vessel, shall from this date be into me Om of admitted into the ports of the United States on payment of no higher duties on the United States tonnage, or on their cargoes aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, PH th¤_¤¤m¢ l'¤¤[=- and on like car ces imported in American vessels. mg “""‘ 1Am°”' Given undger my lmnd at the city of \¢Vashington, the twentieth day of °°° "°°° °‘ April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-iirst. JAMES K. POLK. By the President. Jnms Bucmunu, Secretary of State. 5. Suspension of Discriminaling Dutkc on Vessels jiom Brazil, and on their ca@ Br rm-: Pm:smmu· or wm: Uxvrrzn Sums or- Am·:mc.a. A PROCLAMATION. N¤v.4,1a47. VV!!; mus, by an act of the Congress of the United States of the twenty-Fourth Preamble reciof May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An Act in ad- ting _¤et_ relative dition to an act entitled * An Act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage *·° $l¤¤°¤¤¤¤¤*“'8 and impost, and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes, " d'""" h it is provided, that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of 1828* ° ‘ lu 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 Won the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the nited 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 die same fiom the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country, the szud suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being giyen 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 ourgoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer: