United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 79
Chap. LXXIX.—An Act for giving effect to a commercial arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Colombia.[1]
Colombian vessels coming direct, &c. to pay same duties, &c. as American vessels.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That vessels of the Republic of Colombia, and their cargoes, whether of foreign or domestic produce or manufacture, which shall come direct from the ports of that nation to the United States, shall pay no greater duties on importation, anchorage, tonnage, or any other kind, than are now, or hereafter may be, levied on the vessels of the United States.
President to remove restriction, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the restriction of coming direct form a port in Colombia, contained in the preceding section, shall be taken off, as soon as the President shall receive satisfactory evidence, that a like restriction is taken off, from vessels of the United States in the ports of the Republic of Colombia, and shall make known the same by his proclamation declaring the fact.
President authorized to suspend operation of this act.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the President of the United States shall at any time receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed or which may be allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the ports of Colombia, corresponding with those extended, or to be extended by this act, to Colombian vessels and their cargoes in the ports of the United States, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of either or both of the provisions of this act, as the case may be, and to withhold any or all of the privileges allowed, or to be allowed, to Colombian vessels or their cargoes.
Approved, May 19, 1832.
- ↑ Acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.