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islands, provinces, or colonies, of Great Britain, on or near the North 

 American continent, and north or east of the United States. 

 Approved, May 29, 1830. 



No. 175. 1830, October 6: Proclamation of the President of the 

 United States, opening to British Vessels the Trade between the 

 British Colonial Possessions and the American Ports. 



By the President of the United States of America. 

 A PROCLAMATION. 



Whereas, by an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed 

 on the 29th day of May, 1830, it is provided, that whenever the 

 787 President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evi- 

 dence that the Government of Great Britain will open the 

 ports in its colonial possessions in the West Indies, on the continent 

 of South America, the Bahama Islands, the Caicos, and the Bermuda 

 or Somer Islands, to the vessels of the United States, for an indefinite 

 or for a limited term ; that the vessels of the United States, and their 

 cargoes, on entering the colonial ports aforesaid, shall not be subject 

 to other or higher duties of tonnage or impost, or charges of any 

 other description, than would be imposed on British vessels, or their 

 cargoes, arriving in the said colonial possessions from the United 

 States; that the vessels of the United States may import into the 

 said colonial possessions, from the United States, any article or 

 articles which could be imported in a British vessel into the said 

 possessions, from the United States ; and that the vessels of the United 

 States may export from the British colonies aforementioned, to any 

 country whatever, other than the dominions or possessions of Great 

 Britain, any article or articles that can be exported therefrom in a 

 British vessel, to any country other than the British dominions or 

 possessions as aforesaid leaving the commercial intercourse of the 

 United States, with all other parts of the British dominions or pos- 

 sessions, on a footing not less favourable to the United States than it 

 now is; that then, and in such case, the President of the United States 

 shall be authorized, at any time before the next session of Congress, 

 to issue his proclamation, declaring that he has received such evi- 

 dence ; and that, thereupon, and from the date of such proclamation, 

 the ports of the United States shall be opened indefinitely, or for a 

 term fixed, as the case may be, to British vessels coming from the 

 said British colonial possessions, and their cargoes, subject to no other 

 or higher duty of tonnage or impost, or charge of any description 

 whatever, than would be levied on the vessels of the United States, 

 or their cargoes, arriving from the said British possessions ; and that 

 it shall be lawful for the said British vessels to import into the 

 United States, and to export therefrom, any article or articles which 

 may be imported or exported in vessels of the United States; and 

 that the Act, entitled "An Act concerning Navigation," passed on the 

 18th day of April, 1818, and Act supplementary thereto, passed the 

 15th day of May, 1820, and an Act, entitled "An Act to regulate the 

 Commercial Intercourse between the United States and certain Brit- 



