1837. GIVEN under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twentyeighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-ninth. By the President: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. ANDREW JACKSON. The President authorized by 1828, to suspend sels of any for whose no eels of the U. S. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by an act of Congress of the United States, of the act 24th May, twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twentydiscriminating eight, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act conduties on ves cerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost,' and to eign nation in equalise the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," it is such duties are provided, that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the ried on ves President of the United States, by the Government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied, in the ports of the said nation, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported in the same, from the United States, or from any foreign country, the President is thereby authorized to issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within the United States, are, and shall be, suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of the said foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the United States, in the same, from the said foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect 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 their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer : ThePresident be ing satisfied that ports of Tusca AND WHEREAS, satisfactory evidence has lately been received no such duties by me, from the Government of His Imperial and Royal Highare levied in the ness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, through an official communication of Baron Lederer, the Consul General of His Imperial and Royal Highness in the United States, under date of the 6th day of August, 1836, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of Tuscany, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported in the same, from the United States, or from any foreign country: Declares the discriminating du Now, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the des, so far as re- United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that sets the ves the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost, within uspended. the United States, are and shall be, suspended and discontinued, sels of Tuscany, so far as respects the vessels of the Grand Dukedom of Tuscany, 1837. and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise, imported into the United States, in the same, from the said Grand Dukedom, or from any other foreign country; the said suspension to take effect from the 6th day of August, 1836, above mentioned, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer. GIVEN under my hand, at the city of Washington, the first day of September, in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first. By the President: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. ANDREW JACKSON. INDEX TO THE ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY- A. Academy, Military, an act making appropriations for Alliance, and Bon Homme Richard, prize money to officers and American State Papers, appropriation for Arkansas, State of, an act to extend the jurisdiction of the District Army, appropriations for the support of Arming and equipping volunteers and militia, appropriation for Atchafalaya Rail-road and Banking Company, an act granting the An act making appropriation for the suppression of Indian An act making appropriations for the payment of the revo- Page. 25 For pay of the army, and subsistence, forage, clothing, camp and gar- An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy For pay and subsistence of officers and seamen, (p. 35;) pay of su- 86 57 Appropriations-Continued. An act making appropriations for the current expenses of the Salary of commissioner, clerks, superintendents, agents, interpreters, This act makes the usual appropriations for the expenses of the civil B. Baltimore, public warehouse at, appropriation for Bank of the United States; resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to receive from said bank, under the Pennsylvania charter, payment for the stock of the United States in the late Bank of the United States Banks, incorporation of, in the Territory of Wisconsin Banking and Rail-road Company at Atchafalaya, an act granting said company the right of way through the public lands of the United States Bean, Jonathan L., payment to Beard, William C., late captain in the United States army, an act granting a pension to Becker, John P., an act for the relief of Page. 38 45 52 105 103 Belgian vessels, discriminating duties on Dutch and Belgian, and their cargoes Bon Homme Richard, officers and crew of, prize money to be distributed to Boston, appropriation for custom-house at Boys, enlistment of in the naval service Branches of the Mint of the United States, established by act of Congress of 3d March, 1837 Breed, Ebenezer, an act for relief of Briggs, Dr. John P., an act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place his name on the pension list Brig General Armstrong, payment of prize money to officers and crew of Brown, James and John, half-breeds of the Cherokee nation of Indians, an act for relief of 27 |