Volume 15
Public Law 40–LIV
for the Repeal of Tonnage Duties on Spanish Vessels.
Approved March 1, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
for the Repeal of Tonnage Duties on Spanish Vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the act entitled “An act
Certain tonnage duties on Spanish vessels, repealed.
1834, ch. 170. Vol. iv. p. 741.
1832, ch. 207, §§ 1, 2. 4.
Vol. iv. p. 578.
Tonnage duties on Spanish vessels.
concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and the first, second, and fourth sections of the act entitled “An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and they are hereby, repealed; and that of Spanish vessels coming from any port or place in Spain or her colonies, where no discriminating or countervailing duties, on tonnage are levied upon vessels of the United States, or from any other port or place to and with which vessels of the United States are ordinarily permitted to go and trade, there shall be exacted in the ports of the United States no other or greater duty on tonnage than is or shall be exacted of vessels of the United States.
Approved, .