Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-03

the Sd March, 1875, and the Presidents
proclamations, issued in virtue OF it, DO not
extend the repeal Of the countervaillng du-
ties. as to merchandise, further than to
goods, the growth, produce or manufacture
ofthe cities Of Hamburg and Bremen, re-
spectively whereas, By the act ofthe goth
April, 1918, all the provisions and limita'
tons Of which are made applicable to the
vessels of Hamburg and Bremen, by the
act passed at last session of Congress, the
acts, and parts OF acts imposing discriml-
uating, or countervailing duties are repeal
ed, not only as respects merchandise, the
produce or manufacture of those cities, re-
spectively; but also as respects '''1chpro'
dsce and masnfacnlres, as con only be, or
most usually are first shipped from them in
their respective vessels."
You will therefore be pleased to discon.
tinue exacting discriminating, or counter
vailing duties on the goods last alluded to.
when imported in vessels Of Hamburg and
Bremen, and refund such as have been COL
lected on such goods, since the 18th May,
1915, as regards the vessels OF the city oil
Bremen and the 18th November, 1915, as
regards the vessels of the city of Hamburg,
being the days, respectively, on which the
reciprocal measures adopted by those Gle
ties, commenced operating.
With respect to the equalization OF tom
mage duties on Prussian vessels, and on the
merchandise imported in them, have to
observe, that the act of Goth April, 1918,
concerning discriminating duties, and the
act of the Sd March, 1919, in addition to
the same, can be applied only prospective
IN, it being understood that the benefits au-
thorized to be extended to those vessels by
the acts mentioned, are yet to be reeipro'
Gated on the part Of the Prussian govern
ment, agreeably to promise made to that
effect.
When information shall be received that
the reciprocal measures have been adopted
by that government, you will be advised
thereof.
In the mean time you are to charge allen
dutieson Prussian vessels and their cargoes.
By the fifth mentioned act, the rates OF
the allowances hereafter to be granted to
vessels qualified, agreeably to law, for car
rying on the Bank. and other Codfshsrtss.
are changed; but the forms and regulations
prescribed, by pre-existing laws, to obtain
such allowances, are still to be observed,
with the exception that vessels abous thirty
tons, in certain event, specified in the
act, will now be entitled to bounty OF
three dollars and Fifty cents per ton, altho'
they may have been employed only three
and half months, at the least, in the pre-
ceding fishing season.
The sixth mentioned act, with view to
the more convenient regulation of the coast
ing trade, divides the sea coast and the ma.
yigable rivers Of the United States, into
Two Great Districts, and directs, with re.
spect to licensed vessels Of twenty tons or
upwards, that, from and after the 3Otb June
next, such vessels may trade between the
districts included within the two great dis
tricts, respectively; and between state
| in one, and an adjoining state in another
Great District. in mannerand subject only
to the regulations that are now required to
be observed by such vessels, intrading from
one district to another, in the same state,
or from district in one state, to district
F.. in the next adjoining state; and that when
+, trading from one to another Great Districts
other than between state in one, and ar
adjoining state in another great district, surf
! vessels are to conform to, and observe the
regulations that are now required to be Oh
served, in trading from district in one
state, to district in any other than an ad
joining state.
Lest it may be supposed, that these ex
emptions from the performance OF certain
acts in certain cases, extend to all goods,
! deem it proper to observe, that the formal
ties heretofore required, on the transporta
=: ton of goods coast-wise, from one distrlc
! TO another, to he thence exported zUih be
nsft Of drapback, must still be observed
on lading and unlading such goods at TIT
ports of departure and Of arrival, respec
! lively.
| 1t is also to be observed, that the act i