United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 22
Chap. XXII.—An Act concerning the convention to regulate the commerce between the territories of the United States and his Britannic Majesty.
Act imposing higher duties on articles imported in British vessels no longer in force.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of any act as imposes a higher duty of tonnage, or of impost on vessels and articles imported in vessels of Great Britain, than on vessels and articles imported in vessels of Great Britain, than on vessels and articles imported in vessels of the United States, contrary to the provisions of the convention between the United States and his Britannic majesty, the ratifications whereof were mutually exchanged the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, from and after the date of the ratification of the said convention, and during the continuance thereof, deemed and taken to be of no force or effect.
Approved, March 1, 1816.