Grant, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by an act of Congress
of January 7, 1824, and by an act in addition thereto of May 24, 1828,
do hereby declare and proclaim that the discriminating duties heretofore
levied in ports of the United States upon merchandise imported in
Portuguese vessels from countries other than those of which such
merchandise is the growth, produce, or manufacture shall be, and are
hereby, suspended and discontinued, this suspension or discontinuance to
take effect on and after the said 17th day of this month and to continue
so long as the reciprocal exemption of merchandise belonging to citizens
of the United States from such discriminating duties shall be granted in
the ports of Portugal.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of February, A.D. 1871,
and of the Independence of the United States of America the
ninety-fifth.
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.
[NOTE.--The Forty-second Congress, first session, met March 4, 1871, in
accordance with the act of January 22, 1867.
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