SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall report to the Secretary of State a list of the several awards made by them: a certified copy whereof shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon distribute, in ratable proportions, among the persons in whose favor the awards shall have been made, such moneys as may have been received into the Treasury in virtue of this act, according to the proportions which their respective awards shall bear to the whole amount then received, first deducting such sums of money as may be due the United States from said persons in whose favor said awards shall be made; and shall also cause certificates to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amount that may thereafter be received; and, on the presentation of the said certificates at the Treasury, as the nett proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the French Government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certificates.

SEC. 7 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause the several instalments, with the interest thereon, payable to the United States in virtue of the said convention, to be received from the French Government, and transferred to the United States, in such manner as he may deem best, and the nett proceeds thereof to be paid into the Treasury; and, on the payment of the proceeds of each of the said instalments, there shall be set apart, of the money in the Treasury, such further sum as would have been received from the nett proceeds of such instalment, if the reservation stipulated by the fourth article of the said convention had not been deducted; and the moneys which may be thus set apart, together with those which may be received into the Treasury under this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to satisfy the awards herein provided for.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all communications to or from the secretary of the board of commissioners, on the business of the commission, shall pass by mail free of postage.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as said commission shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, and all other papers in the possession of the commission or its officers, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That for the term of ten years, from and after the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, wines, the produce of France, shall be admitted into the United States on paying duties not exceeding the following rates on the gallon, (such as is at present used in the United States,) that is to say: six cents for red wine in casks, ten cents for white wine in casks, and twenty-two cents for wine of all sorts in bottles.

No. 36. An Act for giving effect to a commercial arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Colombia.

[Act of May 19, 1832.]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That vessels of the Republic of Colombia, and their cargoes, whether of foreign or domestic produce or manufacture, which shall come direct from the ports of that nation to the United States, shall pay no greater duties on importation, anchorage, tonnage, or any other kind, than are now, or hereafter may be, levied on the vessels of the United States.

SEC. 2. That the restriction of coming direct from a port in Colombia, contained in the preceding section, shall be taken off, as soon as the Presi dent shall receive satisfactory evidence, that a like restriction is taken off from vessels of the United States in the ports of the Republic of Colombia, and shall make known the same by his proclamation declaring the fact.

SEC. S. That if the President of the United States shall at any time receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed or which may be allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the ports of Colombia, corresponding with those, extended, or to be extended by this act, to Colombian vessels and their cargoes in the ports of the United States, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by proclamation, to suspend the operation of either or both of the provisions of this act, as the case may be, and to withhold any or all the privileges allowed, or to be allowed, to Colombian vessels or their cargoes.

No. 57. An act to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.

[Act of May 25, 1832.]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided always, That whenever the President of the United States, shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duties of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom, shall be levied and paid, as if this act had not been passed.

No. 38. An Act concerning Tonnage Duty on Spanish Vessels.

[Act of July 13, 1832.]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That no other or greater duty of tonnage be levied in the ports of the United States on vessels owned wholly by subjects of Spain, coming from a port in Spain, than shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury be ascertained to have been paid on American vessels in the ports of Spain previous to the twentieth October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

SEC. 2. That vessels owned wholly by Spanish subjects, coming from any of the colonies of Spain, either directly or after touching at any other port or place, shall pay, in the ports of the United States, the same rate o duty on tonnage that shall be levied on American vessels in the Spanish colonial port from whence such Spanish vessel shall have last departed; the said amount to be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized, from time to time, to give directions, to the officers of the customs of the United States for the collection of such duties. so as to conform the said duties to any variation that may take place in the duties levied on American vessels in such Spanish ports.

SEC. 3. That whenever the President shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of tonnage levied by any foreign nation on the ships or vessels of the United States, shall have been abolished, he may direct that the tonnage duty on the vessels of such nation shall cease to be levied in the ports of the United States; and cause any duties of tonnage that may have been levied on the vessels of such foreign nation, subsequent to the abolition of its discriminating duties of tonnage to be refunded.

SEC. 4. That the second and third sections of this act shall be in force and take effect from and after the first day of January next.

EXTRACTS FROM TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS,

BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER POWERS.

[Desirous of embracing every material point, connected with the object of this work, it has been deemed proper to introduce extracts from some of the Conventions of Commerce, Navigation, &c. as at present subsisting between the leading Powers of Europe; collected from sources, probably, not at all times within the reach of every public officer. We have, therefore, extracted those conventional parts, only, that may probably be useful, or interesting, to this country, in its intercourse with Foreign Nations: at the same time, we have carefully endeavored to preserve their most important provisions, in order to show the basis, on which most of these conventions, (framed about the period of the general pacification of Europe in 1815) appear to be established: moreover, as a commercial community, and from our geographical position in America, it must be admitted that we have a deep interest, in many of the stipulations of the following public documents, and, of course, they are appropriately added to this volume.]

GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

No. 1. Treaty of peace and friendship between Great Britain and France. Signed at Utrecht, the 31st March, [11th April,] 1713. EXTRACT.

X. The most christian king shall restore to the kingdom and queen of Great Britain, to be possessed in full right forever, the bay and streights of Hudson, together with all lands, seas, sea coasts, rivers, and places situate in the said bay and streights, and which belong thereunto, no tracts of land or of sea being excepted, which are at present possessed by the subjects of France. All which, as well as any buildings there made, in the condition they now are, and likewise all fortresses there erected, either before or since the French seized the same, shall, within six months from the ratification of the present treaty, or sooner, if possible, be well and truly delivered to the British subjects, having commission from the queen of Great Britain to demand and receive the same, entire and undemolished, together with all the cannon and cannon-ball which are therein, as also with a quantity of powder, if it be there found, in proportion to the cannon-ball, and with the other provision of war usually belonging to cannon. It is, however, provided, that it may be entirely free for the company of Quebec, and all other the subjects of the most christian king whatsoever, to go by land, or by sea, whithersoever they please, out of the lands of the said bay, together with all their goods, merchandizes, arms, and effects, of what nature or condition soever, except such things as are above reserved in this article. But it is agreed on both sides, to determine within a year, by com

missaries to be forthwith named by each party, the limits which are to be fixed between the said bay of Hudson and the places appertaining to the French; which limits, both the British and French subjects shall be wholly forbid to pass over, or thereby to go to each other by sea or by land. The same commissaries shall also have orders to describe and settle,in like manner, the boundaries between the other British and French colonies in those parts.

XI. The abovementioned most christian king shall take care that satisfaction be given, according to the rule of justice and equity, to the English company trading to the bay of Hudson, for all damages and spoil done to their colonies, ships, persons, and goods, by the hostile incursions and depredations of the French, in time of peace, an estimate being made thereof by commissaries to be named at the requisition of each party. The same commissaries shall moreover inquire as well into the complaints of the British subjects, concerning ships taken by the French in time of peace, as also concerning the damages sustained last year in the island called Montserat, and others, as into those things of which the French subjects complain, relating to the capitulation in the island of Nevis, and castle of Gambia, also to French ships, if perchance any such have been taken by British subjects in time of peace; and in like manner into all disputes of this kind, which shall be found to have arisen between both nations, and which are not yet ended; and due justice shall be done on both sides without delay.

XII. The most christian king shall take care to have delivered to the queen of Great Britain, on the same day that the ratifications of this treatỷ shall be exchanged, solemn and authentic letters, or instruments, by virtue whereof it shall appear, that the island of St. Christopher's is to be possessed alone hereafter by British subjects, likewise all Nova Scotia or Acadie, with its ancient boundaries, as also the city of Port Royal, now called Annapolis Royal, and all other things in those parts which depend on the said lands and islands, together with the dominion, propriety, and possession of the said islands, lands, and places, and all right whatsoever, by treaties, or by any other way obtained, which the most christian king, the crown of France, or any the subjects thereof, have hitherto had to the said islands, land s, and places, and the inhabitants of the same, are yielded and made over to the queen of Great Britain, and to her crown, forever, as the most christian king doth at present yield and make over all the particulars above said; and that in such ample manner and form, that the subjects of the most christian king shall hereafter be excluded from all kind of fishing in the said seas, bays, and other places, on the coasts of Nova Scotia, that is to say, on those which lie towards the east, within thirty leagues, beginning from the island commonly called Sable, inclusively, and thence stretching along towards the south-west.

XIII*. The island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent islands, shall * Renewed by Article V. of the treaty of Paris, 1763.