Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
[From the Diario Oficial,
Mexico, December 2,
1868.—Translation.]
Decree relating to differential duties, and establishing a premium
on the construction of national vessels.
DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY AND OF PUBLIC CREDIT.—SECTION
1.
The citizen President of the republic has been pleased to address to
me the following-decree:
Benito Juarez, constitutional President of the United Mexican States,
to all the inhabitants of the same, be it known:
That the congress of the union has thought proper to decree the
following:
The congress of the union decrees:
Article 1. If effects imported or exported
in Mexican vessels are subjected in the ports of another nation to
the payment of differential duties, the effects imported or exported
in vessels of that nation, proceeding from said ports, and which
arrive in those of the republic, shall be subjected to the payment
of the same duties.
Art. 2. Two nautical schools shall be
established; one in the port of Campeche, and the other in that of
Mazatlan, for the instruction of youth destined for service in the
national marine.
Art. 3. With reference to said schools the
decree of the 30th of May, 1857, is declared in force, with the sole
modification that there be added to the estimate of the monthly
expenditures of the said nautical schools the sum of seventy dollars
for the salary of a professor of the French language.
Art. 4. There is conceded to the
constructors in the republic of national vessels, which measure from
one hundred tons and upwards, a subvention of fifteen dollars per
ton, which subvention shall be paid by order of the minister of
fomento immediately that the vessel constructed shall be
launched.
Hall of sessions of the congress of the Union. Mexico, November 24,
1868.
R. G. GUZMAN, Vice-President.
JOAQUIN BARANDA, Secretary.
JUAN SANCHEZ AZCONA, Secretary.
Wherefore I order that it be printed, published, circulated, and that
due compliance be given to it.
Palace of the General Government, Mexico, November 24, 1868.
BENITO JUAREZ.
To the Citizen Matias Romero, Minister of Treasury and Public Credit.
And I communicate the same to you for your knowledge and the
consequent ends.
Independence and liberty!
Mexico, November 24, 1868.
ROMERO.
