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On the recordJuly 31, 1818
so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels and on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States as imposed a discriminating duty of tonnage between vessels of the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and vessels of the United States and between goods imported into the United States in vessels of Hamburg and vessels of the United States are repealed so far as the same respect the produce or manufacture of the said free Hanseatic city of Hamburg.
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James Monroe
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Proclamation 25A—Suspending Discriminating Duties on Vessels of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

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