United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 32
Chap. XXXII.—An Act regulating commercial intercourse with the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, and to remit certain duties.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,French vessels coming directly form Cayenne, &c. to pay no higher duties than American vessels.
1828, ch. 49. That the provisions of the act entitled “An act regulating the commercial intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe,” approved on the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, admitting French vessels coming from, and laden with articles, the growth and manufacture of either of the said islands, are hereby extended to the vessels of the same nation coming from the port of Cayenne, in the colony of French Guiana, so as to entitle said vessels coming directly from said port of Cayenne, and lade with articles the growth and manufacture of said colony, which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, to admission into the ports of the United States, on payment of no higher duties of tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes therein imported:President authorized to suspend the operations of this act, when. Provided, That if the President of the United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the said colony of French Guiana by the arretes of its Governor, bearing date the fifth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and by the tariffs and regulations in force in the colony, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operations of this act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it.
Certain duties to be refunded.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of duty, inconsistent with the provisoes of the first section of this act, which, since the arretes, and the tariffs, and regulations referred to in the provisions to the first section of this act, have been in operation in said colony, as may have been levied in the ports of the United States upon any French vessels coming directly from the port of Cayenne, laden with such articles, the growth or manufacture of said colony, which were allowed to be exported therefrom in American vessels.
Approved, June 1, 1842.