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 i00·4 APPENDIX. 9. RzspedingDuh2.1onSh.ipsandInipcrb_/ivm Chili. Br THE Pusrnzsr or vm Urvrrzv Srnwzs or Anaxcs. A PROCLAMATION. Nov. 1, 1850. Wnznzns, by an not of the Congress of the United States of the twenty- ····—···—···-—- fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty~eight, entitled “An P*’°*¤bl°· Act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An Act concerning discriminating duties 1828. ¢h- UL of tonnage and impostf and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," 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 impoet are imposed or levied in the ports of the said nation, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the nited States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported m the same, from the United States or from any foreign country, the President is thereby authorized to issue his proclamation, declarinc that the foreign cliscriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within the limited States, are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said forei nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the Edited States in the same from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take efect 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: And whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me, from the government of the Republic of Chile, through an oilieial communication of Seder Don Manuel Carvsllo, accredited to this government as Envoy Extmordinary ond Minister Plenipotentiary of that Republic, under date of the thirtydirst of October, 1850, that no other or higher duties of tonnage and impost are imposed or levied in the ports of Chile, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, and upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States, and from any foreign country whatever, than are levied on Chilean ships and their cargoes, in the same ports, and under like circumstances: Diimiminnting Now, therefore, I, Millard Fillmore, President of the United States of Amerilutics ¤{ wu- ca, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing EFF we '“3P°‘* discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United Staten, are, nn r;°‘;‘;:;““°shi;; gba]] bc, gugpeuded and disoontinned, so far ns respects the vessels of Chile, nf import, oy and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported into the United Chile. States in the same, from Chile and from any other foreign country whatever; the said suspension to take effect from the day shove mentioned, and to com tinue thenceforwsrd, so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States, and the roduce, manufactures, and merchandise, im rted into Chile in the same, as aildresaid, shall be continued on the part of the) government of Chile. Given under my baud at the City of Washington, this First day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and the seventyéifth of the independence of the United States. MILLARD FILLMORE. By the President: W. S. Dnnmcx, Acting Scc·da:y q/' Safe.