The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-03

the constitution prohibits the levyng of export duties
The first navigation treaty which we contracted. re-
cprocatng the indirect carrying, that with Central
America concluded at Washington December S, 1875,
by Henry Clay and Antonio Jose Cenas plenipoenaries
Of the respective governments
The second was that with Denmark concluded at Wash
ngton April rs, 1926 by Henry Clay and Peter Peder-
son. plenipoentaries Of the respective governments.
The third was that with Sweden and Norway, con-
cluded at Stockholm, (under Mr. Cays instructions as
Secretary OF Sate July 4, 1927. by j. j. Appleton and
G. De Wetterstedt, penipotentiares of the respective
governments
The fourth was that with the Hanseatic republics
Hamburger, Bremen, and Lubeck-concluded at Wash
ington December 20, 1927, by Henry Clay and Vincent
Rumpf, plenipoenaries of the respective governments
The ffth was that with Prussia, concluded at Wash
ington May 1928, by Henry Clay and Ludwig Neder
statter penipotentares OF the respective
The sirh was that with Brazil, concluded at Rio de
Janeiro (under the instructions of Mr. Clay Secretary
of State,) December 10. 1928, by William Tudor and
Arueny Some Milo Alvin, plenipoentares OF the re-
specive governments
The seventh was that with Austria concluded at Wash
ington August OF, 1929, by Martin Van Buren, (when
Secretary of Siate and L. Baron of Lederer plenpoten
taries of the respective governments.
The eighth was that with the Ottoman Porte, concu-
ded April 7, 1880, by Charles Rind and Mohammed
Haned, plenipotenaries of the respective governments
The ninth was that with Mexico, concluded at the
city of Mexico April s, 1881, by Anthony Butler and
Lucio Alteaman and Raphael Mangno, penipotentiares
of the respective governments.
The tenth that with Chill, concluded at Santiago
May IS, 1882, by John Hamm and Andres Bello, plen
potentiares of the respective governments.
The eleventh that with Russia, concluded at ST.
Petersburg December 8, 1892 by James Buchanan and
Count Nesselrode, plenpotenares of the respective gov
ernments.
The t,ceLfM was that with Venezuela, concluded at
Caracas January 30, 1885, by John G. A. Williamson
and Santos Mcheena, penpotentiares of the respective
governments.
The thirteenth was that with the Peru Bolivian Con-
federation concluded at Lima Nov 80, 1885, by Samuel
Iarned and j. Garcia Del Rio, penpotentiares of the
respective governments.
The fourteenth that with Greece, concluded at
London December 10, 1887, by Andrew Stevenson and s.
Tricoup penpotentaes of the respective governments
The fifteenth that with Sardinia, concluded at
Genoa Nov 26, 1885, by Nathaniel Niles and Solar de la
Marguerite, plenpoentaries of the respective govern
ments
The Sixteenth was that with Holland concluded at
Washington January 10, 1899, by John Forsyth and
Adrian Martini, plenpoentares of the respective gov
ernments.
The seventeenth that with Ecuador, concluded at
Quito June 10, 1892 by James c. Pickett and Luis de
Saa penipotentiaries of the respective governments
The eighteenth that with Portugal, concluded at
Lisbon August 2e, 1910. by Edward Kavanagh and AL
media Garrett penpoentares OF the respective govern
ments.
Nearly year before the expiration OF Mr. Adams's
presidential te the indirect carrying reciprocity became
so popular that the government resolved to make gem
era far it was in its power to do and accord
ingy act of Congress was approved on the oath May
1928, which provides:
"SEc g. That upon satisfactory evidence being given
to the President of the United States by the government
of ANY FOREIGN NATION that no discriminating duties oil
tonnage or import imposed levied in the ports of
the said nation upon vessels wholly belonging citizens
of the United States, upon the produce manufactures
or merchandise, imported in the same from the United
States, or FROM ANY foreign COUNTRY, the President
is hereby AU THORlZED to issue his proclamation, de.
carng that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage
and import within the United States are, and shall be-
suspended and discontinued far respects the vessels
of the said foreign nation, and the produce manufac
tures or merchandise imported into the United States
in the same from the said foreign nation, OR FROM
ANY OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRY the said sus-
pension take effect from the time OF such notification
being given to the United Sates and to continue long
the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging citi
of the United States and their cagoes. aforesaid,
shall be continued. and no longer"
Under this authority President Jackson by proclama-
ton assmilaed their intercourse with us, the flags OF
he Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwerin and the
Grand Duchy of Odenbug with our own as soon as he
received notification from the government of those
Grand Duchies, respectively, that they prepared
meet us in the spirit of reciprocity expressed in our
statute With the exception of the Hanseatic republics
which Mr. Clay permitted on account OF their limited
dimensions. to purchase their vessels wherever they
pleased-these States were more favored than any OF
those which had entered into treaty stpulaons with u.s.
for they restricted to the bottoms of their build
and the bottoms of the build of the United States No
other evidence required either with reference to the
the ship, than the flag of Mecklenburg Oden
burg. with the necessary papers to establish identity.
Thus stood our foreign navigation system when MI.
Polk into the presidential chair The treaties were
all in forcealthough the term of most of them had
pred years previously, and nothing but the twelve
months notice from government required to cause
their operations to ceaseand the acts of Congress had