# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 111

Chap. CXI.—An Act in addition to an act, entitled “An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,” and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes.
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4. Where no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are levied in the ports of said nation, upon vessels, &c. of the U. S., the President to issue his proclamation, declaring, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the said nation, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchanidse, imported in the same from the United States, or from any foreign country, the President is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within the United States, are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States in the same, from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country: the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer.
Duties collected on vessels of Prussia, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no other or higher rate of duties shall be imposed or collected on vessels of Prussia, or of her dominions, from whencesoever coming, nor on their cargoes, howsoever ​composed, than are, or may be, payable on vessels of the United States, and their cargoes.
All duties assessed since April 15, 1826, on Prussian vessels, &c., beyond the amount which would have been payable, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to return all duties which have been assessed since the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, on Prussian vessels, and their cargoes, beyond the amount which would have been payable on vessels of the United States, and their cargoes; and that the same allowances of drawback be made on merchandise exported in Prussian vessels as would be made on similar exportations in vessels of the United States.
So much of this act as relates to Prussian vessels, &c. to continue in force on certain conditions, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of this act as relates to Prussian vessels and their cargoes, 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 Prussia, and her dominions; and if at any time hereafter, the said equality shall not be reciprocated in the ports of Prussia, and her dominions, the President may, and he is hereby, authorized to issue his proclamation, declaring that fact, and thereupon so much of this act as relates to Prussian vessels, and their cargoes, shall cease and determine.
Approved, May 24, 1828.
* ↑ See notes to act of Jan 7, 1824, ch. 4.
* ↑ Appendix, No. III.