1121. Certain acts and proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, "some doubts being but not on tonnage: entertained" respecting the language used in the proviso of the act of the 31st May, 1830, &c., Collectors of the Customs are required and instructed to exact on the vessels of the Kingdom of Hanover (and certain other nations mentioned) such Tonnage duties as would have been exacted if said act of the 31st May, 1830, had not passed; and that a separate account be kept of the same: C's cir. 9th April, 1831; V. 3, p. 149.

1122. A treaty of commerce and navigation, establishing reciprocities therein, between the United States and the Kingdom of Hanover, having been ratified at Berlin on the 14th November, 1840, an extract thereof is transmitted to Collectors, &c., for their government: C's cir. 28th October, 1841; V. 3, p. 906.

reciprocity lished by treaty :

funded.

1123. Collectors are informed that discriminating Tonnage duties are improperly col- tonnage to be relected of Hanoverian vessels, which must be refunded: S's cir. 5th August, 1844; V. 3, p. 356.

1124. Discriminating Tonnage duties between vessels of the United States and those of Hamburg and Bremen, and between the duties on goods imported in American vessels and vessels of those two Hanseatic cities, are discontinued, on principles of reciprocity, by proclamation of the President: C's cir. 14th August, 1828; V. 1, p. 415.

1125. Further instructions are given respecting the repeal of discriminating duties between the vessels and cargoes of Hamburg and Bremen and those of the United States: C's cir. 14th April, 1819; V. 2, pp. 9, 10.

1126. A reciprocity of commercial intercourse between the United States and Prussia is anticipated: C's cir. 14th April, 1819; V. 2, pp. 9, 10.

1127. The Prussian Government having repealed her discriminating duties as to the United States, the vessels of that country are entitled to the benefit of the act of the 20th April, 1818, concerning Tonnage and discriminating duties; and such duties, inconsistent with that act, collected since the said repeal, are to be refunded: C's cir. 18th November, 1819; V. 2, p. 85.

1128. Of the Prussian sea coast, the districts of Koenigsburg, Danzig, Stellin, Coeslin, and Stralsund, with the ports embraced in each, comprehend the whole: C's cirs. 18th November, 1819, and 10th May, 1820; V. 2, pp. 85, 90.

1129. Discriminating Impost and Tonnage duties between the United States and the Governments of Prussia and Brazil, (see Brazil, sequel,) are, by treaty stipulations, reciprocally abolished for a definite period of twelve years, and to continue thereafter abolished, subject to revocation upon twelve months' notice: C's cir. 18th October, 1830; V. 3, p. 85.

As ΤΟ RUSSIA: Equalization

1130. Discriminating duties between the tonnage of American and Russian vessels, and the goods imported in them, are terminated by the repeal on the part of Russia of her dis- lished: criminating duties, as far as they affect the United States: C's cir. 18th November, 1819; V. 2, p. 85.

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AS TO SWEDEN AND

1131. Certain acts and proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, "some doubts being entertained" respecting the language used in the proviso of the act of the 31st May, 1830, &c., Collectors of the Customs are required to exact on the vessels of Russia (and certain other nations mentioned) such Tonnage duties as would have been exacted if the said act had not passed; and that a separate account be kept of the same: C's cir. 9th April, 1831; V. 3, p. 149.

1132. All the discriminating and countervailing duties of Lubeck, as far as they affect the commerce of the United States, having been abolished by that Hanseatic city on the 30th October, 1819, such duties imposed by laws of the United States, as far as they affect the commerce of that city, are abolished by authorized proclamation of the President: C's cir. 10th May, 1820; V. 2, p. 89.

1133. By virtue of the act of 3d March, 1815, and a Convention between the United NORWAY: Equaliza- States and Sweden and Norway, the countervailing or discriminating duties affecting the respective interests of the parties are abolished: S's cir. 27th January, 1819; V. 2, p. 99.

tion is established.

1134. Official information having been received that the laws and regulations of the Kingdom of Norway, restricting foreign vessels in their importations, &c., have been repealed as to vessels of the United States, the provisions of the 1st and 2d sections of the act of 3d March, 1817, concerning the navigation of the United States, are directed to be no longer applied to Norwegian vessels: S's cir. 5th November, 1821; V. 2, p. 129.

1135. The discriminating and countervailing duties of the United States, as far as they affect Norwegian commerce, are discontinued on principles of reciprocity by proclamation of the President, with retrospective action to refund any duties collected against the provisions in the case: C's cir. 10th November, 1821; V. 2, p. 157.

1136. All countervailing duties, so far as they affect the commerce of the Dukedom of Oldenburg, are discontinued by the authorized proclamation of the President: C's cir. 29th January, 1822; V. 2, pp. 159, 161.

1137. Another proclamation respecting the discontinuance of discriminating duties, so far as they affect the Dukedom of Oldenburg, is made by President Jackson: C's cir. 5th November, 1830; V. 3, pp. 99, 107.

1138. Certain acts and proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, "some doubts being entertained" respecting the language used in the proviso of the act of the 31st May, 1830, &c., Collectors are required to exact on vessels of the Dukedom of Oldenburg (and certain other countries mentioned) such duties as would have been exacted if the said act had not been passed; and that a separate account be kept of the same: C's cir. 9th April, 1831; V. 3, p. 149.

1139. The discriminating duties on French vessels entering American ports after the 1st July, 1820, were fixed at $18 per ton and 50 cents per ton as Light money by the act of 15th May, 1820, without withdrawing from France the benefit of the law of the 3d March,

1815, repealing, conditionally, all alien or discriminating duties, whenever she shall recip rocate those provisions: C's cir. 5th June, 1820; V. 2, p. 95.

by

Convention of 1822.

1140. By the Commercial Convention with France of the 24th June, 1822, the discrimi- equalization nating duties between American and French vessels, their cargoes, (consisting of the produce or manufactures of France,) and discriminating port charges, are abolished: S's cir. 1st July, 1822; V. 2, p. 132.

1141. By the 3d article of the aforesaid Convention, no discriminating duty shall be levied upon articles of French production or manufacture, imported for transit or re-exportation; but, by way of precaution, such duties shall be secured, to be collected in the event that the goods be not re-exported: S's cir. 1st July, 1822; V. 2, p. 132.

1142. The said Convention of the 24th June, 1822, repealing the discriminating duties between the two countries, with the circular of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 1st July aforesaid, and the President's proclamation on the said Convention, are adverted to; and detailed instructions are given for carrying them into effect: C's cir. 14th September, 1822; V. 2, p. 200.

1143. Instructions are given for keeping a separate account of "specific discriminating duties on French goods, imported in French vessels," in accordance with the commercial Convention between France and the United States: C's cir. 14th November, 1822; V. 2, p. 201.

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1144. The instructions of the 14th September last, for carrying into effect the reciprocal repeal of discriminating duties between France and the United States, are deemed sufficient for the present: C's cir. 17th March, 1823; V. 2, p. 242.

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1145. The discriminating duties which have been received before the 24th June, 1822, by virtue of the act of the 15th May, 1820, are required to be refunded, pursuant to the Convention of the former date, and the act of the 3d instant to carry that Convention into effect: S's cir. 25th March, 1823; V. 2, p. 137.

1146. It having been discovered that our Convention with France, while repealing the discriminating duties between the two countries, has actually increased them in some respects, a mutual construction has been concurred in, that whenever such increase occurs no more than the old discriminating duty of 10 per cent. on such goods shall be collected by either: S's cir. 12th May, 1823; V. 2, p. 139.

1147. In pursuance of the Convention with France, her produce and manufactures are not now liable to more than one-half of the discriminating duty of $3 75 per ton of merchandise provided for in that Convention: C's cir. 15th August, 1826; V. 2, p. 449.

1148. French vessels, laden in France with the produce of that country, may touch at her colonial ports, unlade part of their cargo, and arrive in the United States with the balance of their cargo, without forfeiting the benefit of the Convention of the 24th June, 1822; or,

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AS TO DENMARK: Equalization is established.

AS TO COLOMBIA: Equalization is established.

AS TO CENTRAL AMERICA: Equalization is established.

AS TO BRAZIL AND

PRUSSIA: Discriminat

they may touch at the ports of a third Power, on their way to the United States, without forfeiting the benefits of said Convention: C's cir. 12th April, 1827; V. 2. p. 460.

1149. An explanation is given of the provisions of said Convention of 24th June, 1822, affecting imposts, tonnage, and light money to be levied on French vessels laden in France, with produce or manufactures of France, proceeding to Martinique or Guadaloupe, unlading part of their cargo, then filling up with produce of those islands, and thence arriving in the United States, viz: the vessels are liable to tonnage and light money, each, 50 cents per ton; but the goods laden either in France or in those islands, are entitled to entry at domestic rates of duty: C's cir. 26th January, 1829, V. 3, p. 5.

1150. Certain French vessels direct from the ports of Moule and Grand Bourg, and laden with the products or manufactures of either of those isles, are to be admitted into American ports on payment of the American rates of duty: C's cir. 9th February, 1829; V. 3, p. 7.

1151. According to information from the Secretary of State, French vessels are decided to be not liable to the discriminating duties contemplated by the proviso of the 1st section of the Navigation act of the 1st March, 1817: C's cir. 25th June, 1830; V. 3, p. 64.

1152. The same instructions and decisions as those given in the circular of the 26th January, 1829, respecting French vessels touching at Martinique and Guadaloupe, are repeated, without reference to that circular: C's cir. 15th November, 1830; V. 3, p. 88.

1153. (In pursuance of a resolution of Congress of the 3d March, 1837, authorizing a correction of a clerical error of $10,000, in the award of the commissioners under the Convention with France of the 4th July, 1831, for indemnity of French spoliations on American commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury gives notice thereof to claimants interested: S's cir. 27th March, 1837; V. 3, p. 128.)

1154. The Secretary of the Treasury transmits to Collectors a copy of "a Convention of friendship, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark," establishing reciprocity and equalization of duties: S's cir. 25th October, 1826; V. 2, p. 166.

1155. The Secretary of the Treasury transmits to Collectors a copy of "a Convention of peace, amity, navigation, and commerce, between the United States and the Republic of Colombia," establishing reciprocity and equalization of duties: S's cir. 18th August, 1825; V. 2, p. 150.

1156. The Secretary of the Treasury transmits to Collectors a copy of "a convention of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and the Federation of Central America," establishing reciprocity and equalization of duties: S's cir. 8th November, 1826; V. 2, p. 169.

1157. Discriminating Impost and Tonnage duties between the United States and Brazil ing duties abolished. (and Prussia) are, by treaty stipulations, reciprocally abolished for a definite period of 12

years, and to continue thereafter abolished, subject to revocation upon due notice: C's cir. 18th October, 1830; V. 3, p. 85.

AS TO BRAZIL AND PRUSSIA: Discriminating duties abolished.

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A FULL LIST NATIONS ABOLISHING ALIEN DUTIES WITH

1158. A full list is given (65) of all foreign nations whose vessels are entitled to entry at conventional rates of impost and tonnage duties, and which, with certain exceptions, will be exempt from the payment of tonnage after the 1st April, 1831; together with a list of the THE U. STATES. authorities and their dates, by which the said reciprocal arrangements and exceptions are

made: C's cir. 15th November, 1830; V. 3, pp. 93 to 97.

(65.) There will doubtless be a convenience in finding the aforesaid list transcribed here, arranged under three heads, as in the above circular, with the authorities annexed at the end of each item, as follows:

I. "AS TO TONNAGE DUTIES"-FROM WHICH CERTAIN FOREIGN VESSELS ARE EXEMPT, AND UNDER WHAT AUTHORITIES, VIZ:

VESSELS OF GREAT BRITAIN, from His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, or from any other foreign port or place: Convention with Great Britain of the 3d July, 1815.

Ditto—of Great BRITAIN, coming from the British islands, provinces, and colonies on or near the North American continent, and north or east of the United States: President's Proclamation of the 5th October, 1830, and act of Congress, 29th May, 1830.

DITTO OF THE NETHERLANDS, from whatever port or place arriving: Act of Congress, 7th January, 1824.

DITTO OF THE IMPERIAL HANSEATIC CITIES of Lubec, Bremen, and Hamburg: Treaty of 20th December, 1827.
DITTO OF BRAZIL: Treaty of the 12th December, 1828.

DITTO OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA: Treaty of the 1st May, 1828.

DITTO OF RUSSIA: Act of Congress, 7th January, 1824.

DITTO OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY, and the island of ST. BARTHOLOMEW: Treaty of 4th July, 1827.

DITTO OF THE DUKEDOM OF OLDENBURG: President's Proclamation of 18th September, 1830.

DITTO OF THE KINGDOM OF SARDINIA: Act of Congress, 7th January, 1827.

DITTO OF CENTRAL AMERICA: Treaty of the 5th December, 1825.

DITTO OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE POPE: President's Proclamation of 7th June, 1827.

DITTO OF AUSTRIA: President's Proclamation of 3d June, 1825.

DITTO OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA: Treaty of 3d October, 1824.

DITTO OF THE KINGDOM OF HANOVER: President's Proclamation of 1st July, 1828.

DITTO OF FRANCE, coming directly from the islands of MARTINIQUE and GUADALOUPE, and the ports of MOULE and GRAND BOURG, and laden with articles the produce of those islands: Act of Congress, 9th May, 1828, and President's DECISION under it. See circular of the 9th February, 1829.

DITTO-OF SPAIN, only on entry in the ports of Pensacola and St. Augustine, and when laden with Spanish produce, and coming directly from ports in Spain or her colonies, until the 22d May, 1833: Treaty of 22d February, 1819, article 15.

II. AS TO IMPOST DUTIES.-1st. In vessels of what nations, the cargoes-WHETHER consisting of the produce or manufacture of their country, or OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY—are entitled to entry at the domestic or American rates of duty, and under what authority, viz:

IN VESSELS OF THe Kingdom of DENMARK: Treaty of the 26th April, 1826.

DITTO OF CENTRAL AMERICA: Treaty of the 5th December, 1825

DITTO OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA: Treaty of 3d October, 1824.

DITTO-OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY, and the island of ST. BARTHOLOMEW: Treaty of 4th July, 1827.

DITTO OF THE HANSEATIC CITIES of Lubec, Bremen, and Hamburg: Treaty of 20th December, 1827.

DITTO OF BRAZIL: Treaty of 12th December, 1828.

DITTO OF AUSTRIA: Proclamation of the President of 3d June, 1829.

DITTO OF PRUSSIA: Treaty of the 1st May, 1828.

DITTO OF THE DUKEDOM OF OLDENBURG: President's Proclamation of 18th September, 1830.

III. AS TO IMPOST DUTIES.-2d. In vessels of what nations, ONLY, the cargoes-consisting of the produce or manufacture OF THEIR COUNTRY— are entitled to entry at the domestic or American rates of duty, and under what authority, viz:

In vessels of GREAT BRITAIN, articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe: Convention with Great Britain, 3d July, 1815.

DITTO OF GREAT BRITAIN, coming from the British islands, provinces, and colonies on or near the North American continent, north or east of the United States, being laden with the produce of said colonies or of Great Britain: Proclamation of the President of 5th October, 1830, and act of Congress of 29th May, 1830; also, Convention of 3d July, 1815, and Treasury Instructions of 6th October, 1830.