United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act to equalize the duties on vessels of the Republic of Columbia [Colombia] and their cargoes.[1]
Duties imposed on vessels of Colombia, &c., to be the same as those payable on vessels of the United States, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no other or higher rate of duties shall be imposed or collected on vessels of the Republic of Columbia [Colombia,] and their cargoes, consisting of articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of said republic, than are, or may be, payable on vessels of the United States with their cargoes composed as aforesaid.
Secretary of the treasury to return all duties assessed since Jan. 29, 1826, on vessels of Colombia, and their cargoes being the growth, &c., of said republic.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to return all duties which have been assessed since the twenty-ninth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, on vessels of the Republic of Columbia [Colombia,] and their cargoes composed of articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of the said republic, beyond the amount which would have been payable on vessels of the United States and cargoes, composed as aforesaid, imported therein; and that the same allowances of drawback on exportation, in vessels of the Republic of Columbia, [Colombia,] be made as on the like exportations, in vessels of the United States.
This act to continue in force during the time that the equality for which it provides be reciprocated in the ports of Colombia, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force during the time that the equality for which it provides shall, in all respects, be reciprocated in the ports of the Republic of Columbia [Colombia;] and if, at any time hereafter, the said equality shall not be reciprocated in the ports of the said republic, the President may, and he is hereby authorized to, issue his proclamation, declaring that fact, whereupon this act shall cease and determine.
Approved, April 20, 1826.
- ↑ See notes to the act of January 7, 1824, ch. 4, for notes of the act relating to discriminating duties.