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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Dutch government in Holland issues decrees on June 3 and 30, 1809, provisionally allowing importation of American produce for three months, including tobacco, ashes, rice, cotton, and others, with conditions on declarations, origin certificates, and sequestration of non-permitted goods, amid French influence.
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Extract of a letter, from a mercantile house of the first respectability in Rotterdam, to their correspondent in Baltimore, dated 4th July.
"We have now only time to transmit you a translated-copy of a decree, whereby the importation of American produce is provisionally allowed for three months under the regulations therein mentioned. And as our government is evidently inclined to relax, we make no doubt, with the approbation of the French government, but ours will prolong the indulgence, and modify the regulations as far as is necessary, for a free exercise of your neutral commercial rights.
Tobacco and Ashes are amongst the articles already permitted, by a decree of the 4th of April last."
Decree of the 3d June, 1809.
American vessels arriving within the time of three months from the date hereof, (those already arrived included) will not be subjected to the measures of the blockade, provided they have neither been in England nor visited by the enemy; to this effect the captain shall be obliged to make a declaration, which, if found false, the ship and cargo shall be confiscated.
So far as the cargo shall consist of goods the importation of which, according to existing measures, is permitted, the same shall be left at the disposal of the owners or consignees, the remainder will be put under sequestration and deposited in the king's warehouses.
Decree of the 30th June, 1809.
ART. 1.
The list of articles permitted to be imported by our decree of the 31st March last, is provisionally augmented by the following, viz.:
1. Rice
2. Staves
3. Peruvian Bark, and other medicinal drugs
4. Georgia, Louisiana, and Carolina cotton
5. Java Coffee
6. Sugar of that country.
ART. 2.
Besides the certificates of origin required by our above mentioned decree, our Director of the Customs will name a committee of proper persons, consisting of sworn Brokers, for the special purpose of ascertaining whether the goods specified in the former article, are really and originally from our colonies or America, and can be acknowledged as such; for the better execution of which, the goods will be deposited in the king's warehouses.
ART. 3.
One month after the date of this decree, our Director of the Customs shall make us a report whether it be advisable to prolong the here above mentioned measures.
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Holland
Event Date
June July 1809
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provisional three-month allowance for american produce importation; permitted articles include tobacco, ashes, rice, staves, medicinal drugs, cotton, java coffee, sugar; conditions include captain declarations, origin certificates, committee verification, sequestration of non-permitted goods; potential prolongation pending report.
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Extract from Rotterdam letter dated July 4 reports Dutch decrees relaxing import restrictions on American goods with French approval. Decree of June 3 exempts qualifying American vessels from blockade for three months if not visited England, with false declarations leading to confiscation; permitted goods released, others sequestered. Decree of June 30 augments permitted list with rice, staves, Peruvian bark, cotton, Java coffee, sugar; requires origin certificates and broker committee verification; report on prolongation due in one month.