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APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. NOS. 22, 23. 769 chandise of its produce or manufaicture imported into the United States in the same: the said suspension to take efect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and merchandise as aforesaid, therein laden, shall be continued, and no lorwer : And whereas satisfactory evidence was given to the President of the United Igecital that ‘ States, on the 30th day of May last, by Count Luechesi, C0nsuI—Generai of His ¤¤¤S*`¤<=i¤FY ¢’·’i Holiness the Pope, that all foreign and discriminating duties of tonnage and d?;;? a};“i°b‘;;‘; impost within. the dominions of His Holiness, so far as respected the vessels of Egmmon of um the United States, and the merchandise of their produce or ma.nufacture, im~ rope, ported in the same, were suspended and discontinued. Now, therefore. I, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, President of the United States, Diseriminating C0nfo!‘ma.biy to the fourth section of the ant of Congress afbresajd, do hereby dI1H9S of kphproclaim and declare, that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and im- **256 Sgdenggg post within the United States are and shall be suspended and discontinued, so gs to Sublgcts 0,- far as respects the vessels of the subjects of His Holiness the Pope, andthe the pope, merchandise of the produce or manufacture of his dominions, imported into the United States in the same: the said suspension to take effect from the 30th of May aforesaid, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and merchandise as aforesaid, therein laden, shall be continued, and no longer. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty~seven, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. BY rum Pnmsronuwz H. CLAY, Secretary of State. N0. 23. Oj%r1Ing Reward jbr Apprehensicm of Willis Anderson. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SGM-10, 1827· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS Willis Anderson, of the county of Alexandria, m the District of ym,_mm°_ Columbia, is charged with having recently murdered Gerrard Arnold, late of the said county; and whereas it is represented to me that the said Willis Anderson has absconded, and secretes himself, so that he cannot be apprehended and brought to justice for the offence of which he is so charged; and whereas the apprehension and trial of the said W`11Iis Anderson is an example due to justice an humanity, and would be every way salutary in its influence: Now, there- Reward for the ibre, I have thought fit to issue this my proclamation, hereby exherting the ”{;P"°**°“$‘°¤ °f citizens of the United States, and particularly those of this District, and requir- i mls A“d°"°”‘ ing all onicers, according to their respective stations, to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend and bring the said Willis Anderson to justice, for the atrocious crime with which he stands charged, as aforesaid; and I do moreover oder a. reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the apprehension of the said Wihis Anderson, and his delivery to an officer or officers of justice, in the county aforesaid, so that he may be brought to trial for the murder aforesaid, and be otherwise dealt with according to law. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, and caused the [L. s.] seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents. Done at Washington, this tenth day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-second. J. Q,. ADAMS. BY Tum Pnnsmmzwr: H. CLAY, Secretary of Stale. von. xr. Arr.-100