1124 MISCELLANEOUS. 



is hereby authorized at any time before the next session of Congress, 

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

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

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

 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 car- 

 goes, arriving from the said British possessions ; and it shall be law- 

 ful 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 the act, entitled "An 

 act concerning navigation," passed on the eighteenth day of April, 

 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; an act supplementary 

 thereto, passed on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and twenty, and an act, entitled "An act to regulate the com- 

 mercial intercourse between the United States, and certain British 

 ports," passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred 

 and twenty -three, are, in such case, hereby declared to be suspended, 

 or absolutely repealed, as the case may require. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the ports of the 

 United States shall have been opened, under the authority given in 

 the first section of this act, British vessels and their cargoes shall be 

 admitted to an entry in the ports of the United States from the 

 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. 



Presidents Proclamation of October 5, 1830, relative to trade with 



the British Colonies. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. A PROCLA- 

 MATION. 



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 Presi- 

 dent of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that the 

 Government of Great Britain will open the ports in its colonial pos- 

 sessions 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 de- 

 scription 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 



