their cargoes," it is provided that, upon satisfactory evidence being given to the 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 merchandize, 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 merchandize, 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 the citizens of the United States and their cargoes. as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer. And whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received by me, from his royal highness the grand duke of Oldenburg, through an official communication of F. A. Mensch, his consul in the United States, under date of the 15th September, 1830, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied, in the ports of the grand dukedom of Oldenburg, upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandize, imported in the same, from the United States, or from any other country. Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, president of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that so much of the several acts imposing 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 grand dukedom of Oldenburg, and the produce, manufactures and merchandize, imported into the United States in the same, from the grand dukedom of Oldenburg, and from any foreign country whatever; the said suspension to take effect from the day above mentioned, and to continue thenceforward, so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States, and the produce, manufactures and merchandize, imported into the grand dukedom of Oldenburg, in the same, as aforesaid, shall be continued on the part of the government of his royal highness the grand duke of Oldenburg. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the eighteenth day of No. 30.-An act for carrying into effect the Convention of Navigation and Commerce between the United States and France, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-two. [Act of March 3, 1823.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &e. That the act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships or vessels, approved on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEO 2. And be it further enacted, That for the term of two years, from and after the thirtieth day of September last articles of the growth, produce or manufacture, of France, imported into the United States, in French vessels, shall pay an additional duty of three dollars and seventy five cents per ton of merchandise, according to the tenor of the Convention of Navigation and Commerce between the United States and France, concluded on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, over and above the duties collected upon the like articles, also of the growth, produce or manufacture, of France, when imported in vessels of the United States: Provided always, That no discriminating duty shall be levied upon the productions of the soil or industry of France, imported in French bottoms, into the ports of the United States, for transit or re-exportation. SEO. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the expiration of two years from the said thirtieth day of September last, in case of the continuance in force of the said Convention and so long as the same shall continue in force, the extra duties, specified in the second section of this act, shall, from and after the said thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four be diminished by one fourth of the whole amount; and afterwards, by one-fourth of said amount, from year to year, so long as neither of the parties to the said Convention shall have declared the intention of renouncing the same in the manner therein provided, and ur til the whole of such discriminating and extra duty shall have been done away. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance in force of the said Convention, the duties of tonnage, light money, pilotage, port charges, brockerage, [brokerage,] and all other duties, upon foreign shipping, over and above those paid by vessels of the United States, other than those specified in the second section of this act, shall not exceed, for French vessels in the ports of the United States, ninety-four cents per ton of the vessel's French passport. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be refunded, from any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, any extra duties levied before the twenty-fourth day of June last, by virtue of the act of Congress of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, imposing a new tonnage duty on French ships or vessels. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, if the second separate article of the said Convention, concluded on the twenty-fourth of June last, should be ratified by both the contracting parties thereto, and the ratifi ation thereof should be exchanged, on or before the twenty third day of June next, then, from and after the expiration of two months, subsequent to the said exchange of ratifications, and during the continuance in force of the said separate article, the extra duties specified in the second section of this act shall be levied only upon the excess of value of the merchandise imported into the United States in any French vessel, over the value of the merchandise exported from the United States in the same vessel, upon the same voyage; so that, if the value of the articles exported shall equal or exceed that of the articles imported in the same vesssel, (not including articles imported for transit or re-exportation,) no such extra duties shall be levied ; and if the articles exported are less in value than those imported, the extra duties shall be levied only upon the amount of difference of their value. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts of Congress, incompatible with the execution of each and every article of the said Convention, concluded on the twenty-fourth of June last, and of its ratified separate article, be and the same are hereby repealed. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH MARTINIQUE & GUADALOUPE. No. 31.-An act regulating commercial intercourse with the Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe. [Act of May 9, 1828.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted, That all French vessels coming directly from the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, and which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American vessels, may be admitted into the ports of the United States on payment of no higher duties on tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes imported in American vessels: 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 at said islands, by the French ordinance of February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, 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. APPREHENSION OF DESERTERS. No. 52. An act to provide for the apprehension and delivery of deserters from certain foreign vessels in the ports of the United States. [Act of March 2, 1829.] SEO 1. Be it enacted, That on application of a consul or vice-consul of any foreign government, having a treaty with the United States, stipulating for the restoration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such government while in any port of the United States, and on proof by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship's roll, or other official document, that the person named belonged, at the time of desertion, to the crew of said vessel, it shall be the duty of any court, judge, justice, or other magistrate, having competent power, to issue warrants to cause the said person to be arrested for examination; and if, on examination, the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of the United States, shall be deli vered up to the said consul or vice-consul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such government, or, on the request, and at the expense of the said consul or vice-consul, shall be detained until the consul or vice-consul finds an opportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such government: Provided nevertheless, That no person shall be detained more than two months after his arrest; but at the end of that time shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again molested for the same cause: And provided further, That if any such deserter shall be found to have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which the case shall be depending, or may be cognizable, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect. RUSSIA.-CONTRAVENTIONS OF FIFTH ARTICLE OF TREATY. No. 33.-An act for the punishment of contraventions of the fifth article of the treaty between the United States and Russia. [Act of May 19, 1828.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted, That if any one, being a citizen of the United States, or trading under their authority, shall, in contravention of the sti pulations entered into by the United States with the emperor of all the Russias, by the fifth article of the treaty, signed at St. Petersburg, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, sell, or cause to be sold, to the natives of the country on the north-west coast of America, or any of the islands adjacent thereto, any spirituous liquors, fire-arms, or other arms, powder or munitions of war of any kind, the person so offending shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty, nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days, nor more than six months. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superior courts in each of the territorial districts, and the circuit courts and other courts of the United States, of similar jurisdiction in criminal causes, in each district of the United States, in which any offender against this act shall be first apprehended or brought for trial, shall have, and are hereby invested with, full power and authority to hear, try and punish, all crimes, offences and misdemeanors, against this act; such courts proceeding therein in the same manner as if such crimes, offences and misdemeanors, had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts. No. 34.-An act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification under the convention between the United States and his majesty the King of Denmark, of the twenty-eighth March, eighteen hundred and thirty, and for the distribution among such claimants of the sums to be paid by the Danish Government to that of the United States, according to the stipulation of the said convention. [Act of February 25, 1831.] SEO. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the commissioners who are or may be appointed by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in pursuance of the third article of the conven. tion between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Denmark, signed at Copenhagen the twenty-eighth day of March, one thous and eight hundred and thirty, shall meet at Washington City, in the District of Columbia, and. within the space of two years from the time of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of all such claims as may be presented to them, and are provided for by the convention referred to, according to the merits of the several cases, and to justice, equity, and the law of nations, and according to the provisions of said convention. SEC. 2. That all records, documents, or other papers, which now are in or hereafter, during the continuance of this commission, may come into the possession of the Department of State, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commission aforesaid. SEC. 3. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, with their Secretary, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, shall convene in this city on the first Monday of April next, and shat proceed to execute the duties of their commission; and the Secretary of State shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required forthwith, after the passing of this act, to give notice of the said intended meeting, to be published in one or more publie gazettes in the city of Washington, and in such other public papers, published elsewhere in the United States, as he may designate. SEC. 4. That the said commissioners shall proceed immediately after their meeting in the city of Washington, with all convenient despatch, to arrange and docket the several claims, and to consider the evidence which shall have been, or which may be offered by the respective claimants allowing such further time for the production of such further evidence as may be required, and as they shall think reasonable and just: and they shall thereupon proceed to determine the said claims, and to award distribution of the sums to be received by the United States from the King of Denmark under the stipulations of the convention aforesaid, among the several claimants, according to their respective rights. SEC. 5. That the said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make all needful rules and regulations, not con |