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or the Coast of South America, bordering on the Caribbean Sea, 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, 

 not, however, to include vessels in distress or not engaged in trade : 



Prorided, that the President of the United States shall suspend 

 the collection of so much of the duty herein imposed, on vessels en- 

 tered from any foreign port, as may be in excess of the tonnage and 

 light-house dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, imposed in said 

 port on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country 

 in which such port is situated, and shall, upon the passage of this act, 

 and from time to time thereafter as often as jt may become necessary 

 by reason of changes in the laws of the foreign countries above men- 

 tioned, indicate by proclamation the ports to which such suspension 

 shall apply, and the rate or rates of tonnage-duty, if any, to be col- 

 lected under such suspension: 



Provided further, That such proclamation shall exclude from the 

 benefits of the suspension herein authorized the vessels of any foreign 

 country in whose parts the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed 

 on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on 

 their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the 

 vessels of the country in which such port is situated, or on the cargoes 

 of such vessels; 



And section 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 hereby repealed. 



SEC. 12. That the President be, and hereby is, directed to cause the 

 Governments of foreign countries which, at any of their ports, im- 

 pose on American vessels a tonnage-tax or light-house dues or other 

 equivalent tax or taxes, or any other fees, charges, or dues, to be in- 

 formed of the provisions of the preceding section, and invited to co- 

 operate with the Government of the United States In abolishing 

 all light-house dues, tonnage-taxes, or other equivalent tax or taxes 

 on, and also all other fees for official services to, the vessels of the 

 respective nations employed in the trade between the ports of such 

 foreign country and the ports of the United States. 



No. 182. 1887, March 3: United States Statute, Cap. 339. 



CHAP. 339. An Act to authorise the President of the United States to protect 

 and defend the rights of American fishing vessels, American fishermen, 

 American trading and other vessels, in certain cases, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever 

 the President of the United States shall be satisfied that American 

 fishing vessels or American fishermen, visiting or being in the waters 

 or at any ports or places of the British dominions of North America, 

 are or then lately have been denied or abridged in the enjoyment 

 of any rights secured to them by treaty or law, or are or then lately 



