Chapter CX. concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain cases
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Chap. CX.— An Act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain cases. April 20, 1818. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That so much of the several Act of May 3, 1815, ch. 77. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 75. Acts respecting discriminating between foreign vessels and those of the United States, repealed so far as respects vessels belonging to subjects of the Netherlands, &c. Discriminating duties on goods, &c. repealed in favour of produce, &c. of the Netherlands, &c.acts imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels in the ports of the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, is hereby repealed, so far as respects vessels truly and wholly belonging to the subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished the discriminating duties between her own vessels and the vessels of the United States arriving in the ports or places aforesaid.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That so much of the several acts imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same respects the produce or manufactures of the territories, in Europe, of the king of the Netherlands, or such produce and manufactures as can only be, or most usually are, first shipped from a port or place in the kingdom afore said, the same being imported in vessels truly and wholly belonging to subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished its discriminating duties between goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in vessels of the United States and vessels belonging to the nation aforesaid.
Approved, April 20, 1818.