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not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen cents per ton in any one year, 

 is hereby imposed at each entry on all vessels which shall be entered 

 in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in 

 North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Ba- 

 hama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the Sandwich Islands, or 

 Newfoundland; and a duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty 

 cents per ton per annum, is hereby imposed at each entry upon all 

 vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any other 

 foreign ports: Provided, That the President of the United States 

 shall suspend the collection of so much of the duty herein imposed, 

 on vessels entered from any port in the Dominion of Canada. New- 

 foundland, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, the West 

 India Islands, Mexico and Central America down to and including 

 Aspinwall and Panama, as may be in excess of the tonnage and light 

 house dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, imposed on American 

 vessels by the government of the foreign country in which such port 

 is situated anof shall upon the passage of this act. and from time to 

 time thereafter as often as it may become necessary by reason of 

 changes in the laws of the foreign countries above mentioned, indi- 

 cate by proclamation the ports to which such suspension shall apply, 

 and the rate or rates of tonnage duty if any to be collected under 

 such suspension. And provided further, That all vessels which shall 

 have paid the tonnage tax imposed by section forty-two hundred and 

 nineteen of the Revised Statutes for the current year, shall not be 

 liable to the tax herein levied until the expiration of the certificate 

 of last payment of the said tax. And sections forty-two hundred 

 and twenty-three and forty-two hundred and twenty-four and so 

 much of section forty-two hundred and nineteen of the Revised 

 Statutes as conflicts with this section, are hereby repealed. 



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Approved, June 26, 1884. 



792 No. 181. 1886, June 19: Extract from United States Statute, 



Cap. 481. 



CHAP. 421. Au act to abolish certain fees for official services to American 

 vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen. 

 and owners of vessels, and for other purpose. 



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SEC. 11. That section fourteen of "An Act to remove certain bur- 

 dens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American 

 foreign carrying-trade, and for other purposes," approved June 

 twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended so as to 

 read as follows: 



SEC. 14. That in lieu of the tax on tonnage of thirty cents per ton 

 per annum imposed prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 four, a duty of three cents per ton, not to exceed in the aggregate 

 fifteen cents per ton in any one year, is hereby imposed at such entry 

 on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States 

 from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, 

 the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, 



