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COLOMBIA.

(FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE CARACAS eAPERB.)
A LA \\r FOR ESTABLISHING CERTAIN PORTS
POIITS Or DEPOSIT.
The Senate and Chamber of Representatives of the Republic of
Colombia, assembled in Congress. inasmuch as the establishment
of ports of deposit presents advantages not only to importers, by
permitting the re-exportation of such peels and merchandim, tat
do not find a ready sale, without payment of import duties, t
also to the people in general, inasmuch as they will thus be r. •
holy provided with such goods as tlky may require, have ttea
fit to decree. and hereby do decree:
Art. I. The following eons are (teamed ports of deposit for all
kinds of goods and merchandize :—Ott the Atlantic Coast, Puerta
Cabello tied Carthagena. On the Coast of the Pacific, the port of
Guayaquil.
2. All goods and merchandize may he imported at the afore-
mentioned ports, as bonded goods, and placed in the stores of the
Custom-bowie, where they must remain onoo the owner. consignee,
or agent of such goods and merchmalize shall demand them, whe-
ther wholly or in part, for the purpose of selling or of te-exporting
them.
3. In ease of termed:lg the goods for die pnrpers of offer-
ing them Sro sale. tneatreport ditties shall be paid by Me:fitment.,
agreeably to the law on the subjeet, but the dates of than ins•al•
mints shall only be calculated Won the day on which the goals
were taken out of the Curttom-houer. In case the goods or mere
cluindize be withdrawn from the Ctottom.bouse with at stew of re-
exporting them, whether to any other ports of the Republic, or to
foreign ports, they shall not be liable to the payment of import
duties in the ports of &mean. but should they be afterwards Intro-
duced to any port of the Republic, they must there pay the im•
port lutes in the terms provided by the law respecting importe.
4. All goods and merchandise Imported for depopit ain he Rita
ject to an annual duty of feur per cent. on the amount of the
voice, from the day on which the said gootle he introduced ieto
stores of the Custom hotiSe. until that of their being withdrawn.
either for purposes of sale or re-exportation. This duty must be
levied nt the time of withdrawing the goods and effecta from the
place of their deposit.
b. The owner, consignee, or Roma-must present the invoice and
list of goods placed iii deposit in the mode laid down in the law of
'wormier) of the 11th of March of the year 16.
6. When goods and inerchantlize are withdrawn from deposit fo
the purpose of Ming re-exported to any part of the Republic, the
Collector of tie Custom will give their owner, consignee, marmot,
a copy of ti e luvoice, stating therein that the pods land 'fees
have not paid the import duty.
7. The Executive will issue such regulations as may be deemed
, expedient, respecting the system to he observed in the stares of de-
; remit, as well as the formalities to be aucnded to in re-exporting
the goods.
11. Foreign goods and mercbandize, passing the Isthmus, either
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, or fi om the Pacific to the Atlantic.
shall pay only two per cent. transit duty on the amount et' the in-
' voice, which must be preeented and sworn to and certified, as lad
down in the law of importation of the tith 31arch of the present years,
—The Executive will issue such regulations as may be necessary
en admitting goods and merchandize into the labmus, for tyanspore.
'tenon train the one sea to the other sea, and that may be Imported
fur this object.
9. The Executive will arrange for building out of the public,
funds, such stores and offices fur bonding goods, us may be lUees•
lacy in the port..
In. The law of the 27th of September of the year IL respect:Ns
the drawback of duties on certain ankh*. is hereby repealed.
Given it. Bogota on the 3tt of April, 1626 —le.
LUIS A. BARALT,
President of the Senate.
CAVETANO ARBEIA9.
President of the Chamber ni Representatives.
LUIS VARGAS TEJADA,
Secretaty of the Senate. •
MA IA NO' MINI.),
Deputy Secretary of the Chamber of Representatives.
Place of Government in Berta, April 4, 1826.-16.
Let it lee teem:ed.
F. DE P. SANTANDER.
By order of his Exeellency the Vice... President of the Republic,
in charge-of the Executive Rower.
J. M. DEE CASTILLO,
Secretary of State and of the Treasury.
ACT OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS -31DN*IPALITY Ok
THE CITY OF CARACAS.
In the city of Caracas, on the lath of May, of the year 1826,
aistteenth year or independence, the Ptaitical Chief, Domingo
Navas Espinola, the let and 2tl Alcaldes, Francisco Ignacio Ai-
email° Serrano. and lieronimo l'ontpa, and the Members of the
Municipality, Lorenzo Emazabel, Antonio Abed Cedillo, Juun
Jost'. Ginienes. Fernando Acosta, Narciso Ramirez, Manuel
Lopez. Jose Francisco Cespetim, Jose Dionesio Flores, and
Jose do Irribaren, having assembled in the Constitutional Hall
of the Municipality, discussed and agreed to the following rem-
lutton :
The Political Chief called the attention of the Court to a com-
munication received from his Excellency, General Jose Antonio
Paez together with the answers of the Illustrious 'Municipality
of Valencia, respecting the Commission conterred on Messrs.
Jose Nunes Caearez, end Pedro Pablo Dias, by the proreetimee
of this Court of the Sill instant, and stated at the same time that
it was a matter of the first necessity to take this grave and urgeet
matter into consideration, and deliberate on the resolutions adopted
by that Corporation in its Sessions of the 27th and 3Oth of April,
as well as on the 10, 10th, and Ilth instant, and More eanemally
reganlieg the proposilons contained in th:s list.
The official communication of his Excellency Gen. Paez, dated
Valencia, the 12th last-, was then read, setting forth his concur-
rence with the sentiments of this Corporation, and manifesting
his wish to assist personally in this city, in promoting such ar-
rangements for the benefit of the people as circumstances might
require. The 'proceedings of the Illustrious Municipality of
Valencia, as presented to the meeting by the CoMmissionets,
were then read, and it was proposed by the Recorder of the Court.
that although the Intendant had, in the meeting bf 6th inst.,
stated Lis opinion of the illegality or invalidity of its proceedings.
it seemed to him expedient to Invite his attendance on the Foment
occasion, raining for this purpose a Coinmiaeioner, who should ha
likewise authorized to inquire whether lie entertained the samesen-
timents as he expressed on the meeting of the 6th inst. This proposi-
tion bung discussed and put to the vete,it was unanimously carried,
execpt as far as refitted to ascertaining the sentiments of the Inten-
dant, which was deemed irrelevant to the matter. The President dolt
appointed to this Commission the Recorder of the Court, and
}emend() Acosta, who, after an interview with the Intendant, re-
turned, and stated, that he had every desire to co-operate with the
Municipality and people, in such measures as they might take foe
the public happiness anti tranquillity antler the present circum-
stances, but that he required that the invitation should he made in
writing, stating the objects in view, or it' not, that the Munici-
pality would be pleased to transmit him an account of its pro-
ceedings.
After a short discussion on this reply of the Intendant, the Mu-
nicipality resolved on sending him a written invitation, by meane
of the same Commissioners, merely stating therein, that these gen-
tlemen would give him the required information respecting the
motive of the invitation. The Intendant replied in writing, that
he would immediately repair to the Court House, Which he did
forthwith, and after a second perusal of theletter of his Excellency
General l'aez, and the ultimate act of the Illustrious Municipality
of Valencia, and a full discussion thereon, in the coulee of which
the act of this Court of the 29th December, 1821, respecting it,
oath to the Constitution, was referred to, the articles contained lit
the said proceedings of the Al tmicipality of Valencia, were sanc-
tioned and ratified in the following order:—
I.
That d is Illustrious Municipality and that of Valeta:la, with
such others as have, or may manifest their concurrence herewith,
be assembled by means of their respective Deputies, as soon as pos-
sible, in such places as his Excellency General Pan may appoint.
fur the purpose of recording the imperious motives that hare COM-
pelled the peopleto replace his Excellency in the military command.
and invest him with all necessary authority.
2. That the same act do contain the resolution of the people to
accelerate the period designated by the Constitution for the purpose
of ascertaining the expediency of the prevent system ; inasmuch as
time and experience have manifested the obstacles which optima
the completton of this period, and have pointed out the reforms
which must be effected.
3. That a Commissioner be forthwith despatched to his Excel.
lency the Liberator, beseeching him to visit his native soil, where
he will be received as its illustnous son, as its best friend, and the
worthiest of its citizens, in order that he may be pleased to use his
influence with the other departmenta, to the end of convoking fotth-
twith the Grandl Con vention appointed to take place by the Conine
ution in the year 1831 ; and that the mode of effecting this reliant;
in brotherly love, and as mutually Interested In the general pros-
perity, and in avoiding the horrors of civil war, be taken into con-
sidetadou by that assembly; and silo that he may apply the great
experience which he has acquired during the long period in winch
he has guided the destinies of a great portion of the American
world, in communicating to us lessons of prudence anti wisdom,
and become our teacher in the establishment of out institutions.
4. That in the actual state of affairs, it becomes absolutely neces.
sary to invest his Excellency General Jose Antonio Paez with all
authority requisite for the maintenance of public order and tran-
quillity, for raising 'elites for the defence of the country from
fo-
reign invasion, or other acts of hostility, and for preserving regula-
rity, in the administration, which authority he shall hold wider the
title of civil and military chief of Venezuela.
5. That the authority of his Excellency shall continue so long as
circumstances may require ; which it is hoped will change on the
arrival of his Excellency the Liberator and President, when, or 10
soon as it can be done with security, the Venezuelan people shall
be convoked on a basis yet to be laid down, in order to deliberate
on the form of Government must consonant with their situation,
their customs, and productions.
6. that his Excellency General Jose Antonio Paez %hail aim-
mence from this day to exercise the authority of civil and military
chief of Yentguela, in the sericite of which it is hoped he will pre.