United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/Appendices/Appendix 1/Proclamation 4
4. Respecting Commerce with Hamburg.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
1815, ch. 77.Whereas, by an Act of the Congress of the United States of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, so much of the several acts imposing duties on the ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, were repealed, so far as the same respected the produce or manufacture of the nation to which such foreign ship or vessel might belong, such repeal to take effect, in favor of any foreign nation, whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nation, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished:
The President satisfied that Hamburg has abolished discriminating duties.And whereas satisfactory proof has been received by me, from the Burgomasters and Senators of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, that, from and after the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, all discriminating or countervailing duties of the said city, so far as they operated to the disadvantage of the United States, have been, and are, abolished:
Declares the discriminating duty, with respect to Hamburg, repealed.Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage between the vessels of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in vessels of Hamburg and vessels of the United States, are repealed, so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States.
By the President.
Secretary of State.