United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/Appendices/Appendix 1/Proclamation 6
6. Respecting Commerce with Norway.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
1815, ch. 77.Whereas, by an Act of the Congress of the United States, of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, so much of the several acts imposing duties on the ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, were repealed, so far as the same respected the produce or manufacture of the nation to which such foreign ship or vessel might belong, such repeal to take effect in favor of any foreign nation whenever the President of the United States should be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nation, so far as theyThe President satisfied that discriminating duties in the Kingdom of Norway have been abolished. operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished.
And whereas satisfactory proof has been received by me, through the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States in Sweden, under date of the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, that thenceforward all discriminating or countervailing duties in the Kingdom of Norway, so far as they operated to the disadvantage of the United States, had been and were abolished.
Declares the discriminating duty, with respect to Norway, repealed.Now, therefore, I, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage between vessels of the Kingdom of Norway and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in vessels of the said Kingdom of Norway and vessels of the United States, are repealed, so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said Kingdom of Norway.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States.
JAMES MONROE
By the President.
Secretary of State.