STATUTES, PBOCLAMATIONS, KULES, OKDERS, ETC. 961 



fore, enacted, " that the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships 

 shall be limited to the ships of those countries which, having colonial 

 possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those 

 possessions to British ships, or which, not having colonial possessions, 

 shall place the commerce and navigation of this country, and of its 

 possessions abroad, upon the footing of the most favoured nation, 

 unless His Majesty, by his order in council, shall, in any case, deem 

 it expedient to grant the whole, or any of such privileges, to the 

 ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid 

 shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such foreign country. 



And whereas by a certain order of His said late Majesty in council, 

 bearing date the 27th day of July, 1826, after reciting, that the 

 conditions mentioned and referred to in the said Act of Parliament, 

 had not in all respects been fulfilled by the Government of the United 

 States of America, and that, therefore, the privileges so granted 

 as aforesaid by the law of navigation to foreign ships, could not 

 lawfully be exercised or enjoyed by the ships of the United States 

 aforesaid, unless His Majesty, by his order in council, should grant 

 the whole or any of such privileges to the ships of the United States 

 aforesaid: His said late Majesty did, in pursuance of the powers 

 in him vested by the said Act, grant the privileges aforesaid to the 

 ships of the said United States; but did thereby provide and declare, 

 that such privileges should absolutely cease and determine in His 

 Majesty's possessions in the West Indies and South America, and 

 in certain other of His Majesty's possessions abroad, upon and from 

 certain days in the said order for that purpose appointed, and which 

 are long since passed : 



And whereas, by a certain other order of His said late Majesty in 

 council, bearing date the 16th of July, 1827, the said last mentioned 

 order was confirmed; and whereas, in pursuance of the Acts of 

 Parliament, in that behalf made and provided, His said late Majesty, 

 by a certain order in council, bearing date the 21st day of July, 1823, 

 and by the said order in council, bearing date the 27th day of July, 

 1826, was pleased to order, that there should be charged on all ves- 

 sels of the said United States, which should enter any of the ports 

 of His Majesty's possessions in the West Indies or America, with 

 articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the said States, 

 certain duties of tonnage and of customs therein particularly 

 specified : 



And whereas it hath been made to appear to His Majesty in coun- 

 cil, that the restrictions heretofore imposed by the laws of the 

 United States aforesaid, upon British vessels, navigated between 

 the said States and His Majesty's possessions in the West Indies and 

 America, have been repealed, and that the discriminating duties of 

 tonnage and of customs, heretofore imposed by the laws of the 

 said United States, upon British vessels and their cargoes, entering 

 the ports of the said States from His Majesty's said possessions, 

 have also been repealed, and that the ports of the United States 

 are now open to British vessels and their cargoes, coming from His 

 Majesty's possessions aforesaid; His Majesty doth, therefore, with 

 the advice of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of 

 the powers so vested in him, as aforesaid, by the said Act, so passed 

 in the 6th year of the reign of his said late Majesty, or by any other 



