laws oE THE UNION.

BY AUTHORITY. a

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF lHE


NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
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fPuBLIc-No. 22.l


AN ACT to equalize the duties on vessels OF the
Republc oftColumbia (Colombia,) and their
cargoes.


Re il enacted By the Senate and House
of fPehresentatires of the United States Of
.fmerica in CONGRESS- assembled, That no
other or higher rate, of duties shall be inn
nosed or collected on vessels of the Republic
of Columbia (Colembia) and their cargoes.
consisting of articles off growth, produce,
or manufacture of said Republic. than are,
or may be, payable on vessels OF the United
States, with cargoes composed as aforesaid.
SEC. 2. 1fnd be il further enacted, That
the Secretary Of the Treasury be, and ne IS
hereby, authorized to return all duties which
have been assessed since the twenty-nlnth
January, eighteen hundred and twenty-slx,
on vessels Of the Republic Of Columbia Co
lombia) and their cargoes OF the growth,
produce, or manufacture of the said Repub-
lie. beyond the amount which would have
been payable on vessels of the United States
and cargees, composed as aforesaid, import
ed therein and that the same allowances OF
drawback on expectation, in vessels OF the
Republic of Columbia (Colombia) be made
as on the like eXportation, in vessels OF the
u. States.


SEC. 8. .and be il further enacted, That
this act shall continue and be in force during
the time that the equality for which it pro-
vides shall, in all respects, be rcciprocated
in the Republic Of Columbia (Colombia); and
if, at any time hereafter, the said equality
shall not be reciprocated in the ports OF th'
said Republic, the President may, and he
hereby authorized to, issue his proclamation
declaring that fact, whereupon this act shal
cease and determine.


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker Of the House of Representative


JOHN C. CALHOUN,


Vice President of the United States. AID


President Of the Senate


.ArPRovEp-April 20, 1926.


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.