Volume 5
Public Law 24–XIX
respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes.(a)(a)Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to discriminating duties, vol. 4, 2.
Approved March 2, 1837
Statutory text
An Act
respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes.(a)(a)Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to discriminating duties, vol. 4, 2.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
The same duties to be levied on Belgian vessels and their cargoes as are now levied on Dutch vessels and their cargoes.
Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4.
the same duties shall be levied and collected in the ports of the United States, on Belgian vessels and their cargoes, which are now levied and collected on Dutch vessels and their cargoes; but nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the President of the United States from enforcing, whensoever he may deem proper, both against Dutch and Belgian vessels, or either of them, and their cargoes, the provisions of the third section of the act entitled “An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts,” approved the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Approved, .