Volume 4
Public Law 22–CIV
to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.(a)(a) Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. 2.
Approved May 25, 1832
Statutory text
An Act
to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.(a)(a) Notes of the acts relating to discriminating duties, vol. iv. 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided, always, That whenever the President of the United
Proviso.
States shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed.
Approved, .