JAMES K. POLK.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of the 10th
January, 1849, entitled "An act to extend certain privileges to the town
of Whitehall, in the State of New York," the President of the United
States, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, is
authorized to extend to the town of Whitehall the same privileges as are
conferred on certain ports named in the seventh section of an act
entitled "An act allowing drawback upon foreign merchandise exported in
the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico, and to the
British North American Provinces adjoining the United States," passed 3d
March, 1845, in the manner prescribed by the proviso contained in said
section; and

Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury has duly recommended to me the
extension of the privileges of the law aforesaid to the port of
Whitehall, in the collection district of Champlain, in the State of New
York:

Now, therefore, I, James K. Polk, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the port of Whitehall, in
the collection district of Champlain, in the State of New York, is and
shall be entitled to all the privileges extended to the other ports
enumerated in the seventh section of the act aforesaid from and after
the date of this proclamation.

In witness 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 2d day of March, A.D. 1849, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the seventy-third.

JAMES K. POLK.

By the President:
JAMES BUCHANAN,
_Secretary of State_.

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