Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-12-27
CoINIERCLAL.
ices of Produce in Alexandria yesterday.
IMPORTANT.

Letters received in this city from
Halifax, to the 10th inst. state that the
collector of the port has given such {
construction to the recent act Of parlia
ment regulating the trade with the CO.
lonies, as will prohibit the admission
Of American vessels into that port after
the 5th of January next.
We subjoin an extract from that
clause of the act relating to this sab
ject, from which it appears that the
vessels of those powers, which do not
put British vessels on footing with
the most favored nations, cannot be
admitted into the colonies.
Inasmuch, therefore, as by the com.
mercial treaties between the United
States and Holland, Sweden and Den.
mark, the flags Of those countries are
admitted from their colonies, by the
payment of only six cents tonnage du.
ty, while those rom the colonies Of
Great Britain Az charged one dollar
per ton, British vessels are not consi-
dered among those of the most favor.
ed nations. 1t consequently follows
that American vessels cannot be ad-
mitted into any of the British colonial
possessions without the authority OF
an order in council.
The 4th section Of the act to regu-
late the trade of the British posses
sions abroad, to take effect the 5th of
January, 1926, says
BE ii therefore enacted, That the pri-
vileges hereby granted TO foreign ships,
shall be limited to the ships Of those
countries which, having colonial pos
sessions, shall grant the like privileges
Of trading with those possessions to
British ships, or which, not having CO.
lonial possessions, shall place the COM
merce and navigation of this country,
and of its possessions abroad, upon the
footing of the most favored nation, UNI
less his majesty, by his order in coun-
Gil, shall in any case deem it expedient
to grant the whole or any of such pri-
vileges to the ships of any foreign
country,'although the conditions afore-
said shall not in all respects be fulfilled
by such foreign country"
We learn from Halifax, says the
Commercial Advertiser, that the con-
slruction upon this section by the Off,
Gers Of the customs, will entirely ex-
clude American vessels from the ports
of British colonies, from and after the
5th proximo, "inasmuch as by the
commercial treaties between the Uni
ted States, and Holland, and Denmark,
the flags Of those countries are admit
ted from their colonies by the payment
of only six cents tonnage duty, whilst
those from the colonies Of Great Bril-
tain are charged one dollar per ton,
British vessels are not considered a.
mong those Of the most favored ma
TONS"
British Colonial Trade.-The Cham
Der of Commerce are officially inform
ed, that foreign vessels will not be per-
mitted to enter into this port from the
United States after the 5th Of January.
1926, under the trade acts passed in
the British parliament, unless an order
from his majesty in council should be
previously issued TO the contrary.
RICH. TREMAIN,
Chairman Of the Cham Of Commerce.
Halifax, Dec 7, 1925.
Enumerated articles requiring Con-
sular Certificates on importation into
Great Britain ana Ireland, after the LIST
January. ls26:-Apparel of all kinds,
artificial flowers, bas,, beads, bracelets,
sc. beds, bedticks books ,brooms Of all
sorts, brushes of do, burde.ts, camblets,
canvas, carminia wool, carpets, cor.
dage not tarred, cotton ,Dooi, cotton yarn,
cotton thread, all articles wholly made
or mixed with cotton, silk, wool, &c,
down, feathers, fax, fu rrier's waste,
goats hair, gold or silver On thread, &c
grogram, hats, caps of straw, sc
hemp, horn, horn tips, hair Of all sorts
leather, linen, lutte strings, sc. maps,
mattresses, mats, mating, mshair
yarn, nets, paper, pack thread, parch'
ment, pelts, plating Of straw, chip
hair, sc. quilts, rags, sails and sal