Bv Ae President of fke Uailed Siates Of America

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Whereas by an act of the Congress of the Unhed States of the 3rd of March, lsij entitled s'An act allowing drawback upon foreign nerchan- dize exported ip the original packages to Chihu- ahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico. and to the British North American Provinces adjoining the | uiied States" certain privileges are extended in refer enee to drawback to ports therein specially emu nneraied in the 7th section of said act which also , provides That such other ports situated on the frontiers of the United States. adjoining British North American Provinces as may hereafter be found expedient, may have extended to them The like privileges on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and proclamation lu- Iy made by the President of the United States specially designating the ports 10 which the aiore- said privileges 10 be extendcd:" And whereas the Secretary of the Treasury has du. ly recommended to me the extension of the pri- yileges of the law aforesaid 10 the port ofI.esis- ton in the collection district Of Niagara, in the State of New York:

 Now, therefore, 1, JAMES K. PeLK, President of the United States of America, dn hereby declare and proclaim that the port of Lewiston in the col lection district of Niagara, the state of New York IS and shall be entitled 10 all the privileges extended to the other norts enumerated in the venth section of the act aforesaid from and after the date of this proclamation.

 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. and caIsed the seal of the United States tO he affixed

 Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth

 day of January, in the yeaf of our Lord IL. s1 one thousand eight hundred and forty SIX.

 and of the Independence of the United

 States of America the seYentieth.

 JAMES k. POLK. By the President

 JANFS Rrr.uANAN CcrreIgyy of St,fe