United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/Appendices/Appendix 1/Proclamation 7
7. Respecting Commerce with Oldenburg.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by an Act of Congress of the United States, of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen,1815, ch. 77. 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States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, were repealed, so far as the same respected the produce or manufacture of the nation to which such foreign ship or vessel might belong, such repeal to take effect in favor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 should 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 Oldenburg has abolished discriminated duties.And whereas satisfactory proof has been received by me, under date of the eleventh of May last, that thenceforward all discriminating or countervailing duties of the Dukedom of Oldenburg, so far as they might operate to the disadvantage of the United States, should be, and were, abolished, upon his Highness the Duke of Oldenburg’s being duly certified of a reciprocal act on the part of the United States:
Declares the discriminating duty, with respect to Oldenburg, repealed.Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on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 vessels of the Dukedom of Oldenburg and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in vessels of the said Dukedom of Oldenburg and vessels of the United States, are repealed, so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said Dukedom of Oldenburg.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States.
By the President.
Secretary of State.