Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-11
RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE UNI
TED STATES AND THE BRITISH
NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES.

BET w GGN TAA UNI
TED STATES AND THE BRITISH
NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES.
The following general regulations have been
issued by the Secretary Of the Treasury to col
lectors and other officers of customs:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Nov. 4, 1854.
It is deemed advisable to issue, in the form
of General Regulations, the instructions for
warded to the collectors of several of the prin-
cipal ports in the United States, under date Of
the 10th ultimo, as follows:
In consideration Of the privilege now en-
well as of the probable exemption from duty
at an early day, Of "6sh Of all kinds, the pro
ducts of fish, and of all other creatures living
of the reciprocity treaty of the 9th of June
last, entered into between the United States
and Great Britain, upon due compliance with
the requirements Of said treaty, respectively,
by the Imperial Parliament and the Provincial
Parliaments of the British North American
Colonies, affected by the treaty aforesaid, and
in order to facilitate and promote certain ar
rangements and understandings dependent
upon the action of Congress) had between the
Secretary of State of the United States and
the British Minister, Mr.. Champion, it becomes
necessary to issue the following instructions
for your government, to wit:
i. On entry at your port, for consumption,
of fish of the description mentioned, and due
payment of the duties thereon, you will give
the owner, importer, or agent, proper receipt
therefor, with the custom-house seal attached,
specifying the name and nation of the vessel
or other vehicle the date of the entry, the place
from whence arriving, with the quantity and
description of the fish.
2. Should the parties desire to warehouse
under bond, you will permit the same to be
done in accordance with existing provisions of
law on the subject, taking care to give such
particulars of the transaction, in the bond, as
to show the true object of the obligation.
In consequence of the action of Parliament
of Canada in giving effect on the part of that
province, to the reciprocity treaty of the 9th of
June last, and the order Of the customs depart
ment of Canada in pursuance thereof, and
similar legislative action on the part of the
province of New Brunswick, of which the de-
partment has received satisfactory information,
collectors and other proper officers of the Gus
toms are hereby further instructed to apply the
foregoing regulations, Nos. and to the i'm
portations into the United States from Canada
and New Brunswick of the articles (if the pro-
ducts of either Of those provinces) enumerated
in the schedule annexed to article third Of the
reciprocity treaty of the 5th of June last, and
in the first section of the act of Congress Of the
9Th of August last, giving effect to said treaty,
to wit:
Grain, -four, and breadstuffs Of all kinds !;
animals of all kinds; fresh, smoked, and sailed
meats; cotton wool; seeds and vegetables !;
undried fruits dried fruits fish Of all kinds /;
products of fish and other creatures living in
the water; poultry; eggs; hides, furs, skins, or
tails undressed stone or marble in its crude or
unwrougbt state slate, butter, cheese, tallow ;
lard horns; manures ores Of metals Of all
kind; coal; pitch, tar, turpentine ashes
timber and lumber Of all kinds, round, hewed,
and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or in
part; fre.wood, plants, shrubs, and trees
pelts wool 6sh-oil; rice; broom.corn and
bark; gypsum, ground or unground; hewn
or wrought or unwrought burr or grind stones
dye-stufs fax, hemp and tow, unmanufac-
tured unmanufactured tobacco; rags.
JAMES GUTHRIE,
Secretary Of the Treasury.