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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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Public Acts of the Twenty-Fourth Congress, Second Session, Chapter 19
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March 2, 1837.

Chap. XIX.An Act respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,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.
That 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 the 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, March 2, 1837.


  1. Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to discriminating duties, vol. 4, 2.