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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress, First Session, Chapter 104
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May 25, 1832.

Chap. CIV.An Act to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.[1]

No tonnage duties to be levied.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided, always, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed.

Approved, May 25, 1832.


  1. Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.