Volume 4
Public Law 22–CCXIX
to repeal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the United Slates, and upon certain foreign vessels.(a)(a) Acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.
Approved May 31, 1830
Statutory text
An Act
to repeal the tonnage duties upon ships and vessels of the United Slates, and upon certain foreign vessels.(a)(a) Acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. p. 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That, from and after the first day of April next, no duties upon the tonnage of the ships and vessels of the United States, of which the officers and two thirds of the crew shall be citizens of the United States, shall be levied or collected; and all acts and parts of acts imposing duties upon the tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States officered and manned as aforesaid, so far as the same relate to the imposition of such duties, shall, from and after said first day of April next, be repealed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That, from and after the said first
And as to foreign vessels on certain conditions.
day of April next, all acts and parts of acts imposing duties upon the tonnage of the ships and vessels of any foreign nation, so far as the same relate to the imposition of such duties, shall be repealed : Provided, That the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nation, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished.
Approved, .