In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand.

[Seal.]

Done at the city of Washington, the 15th day of May, A.D. 1837, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first.

Martin van Buren.

By the President: 
  John Forsyth,
    Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A proclamation.

Whereas by the third section of the act of Congress of the United States of the 13th of July, 1832, entitled “An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels,” it is provided 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

Whereas satisfactory evidence has lately been received from His Majesty the King of Greece that the discriminating duties of tonnage levied by said nation on the ships or vessels of the United States have been abolished: 

Now, therefore, I, Martin Van Buren, President of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that the tonnage duty on the vessels of the Kingdom of Greece shall from this date cease to be levied in the ports of the United States.

Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 14th day of June, A.D. 1837, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first.

M. Van Buren.

By the President: 
  John Forsyth,
    Secretary of State.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

Adjutant-general’s office,

Washington, March 7, 1837.

General order No. 6.

I. The Major-General Commanding in Chief has received from the War
Department the following order: 

Washington, March 6, 1837.

General Andrew Jackson, ex-President of the United States, being about to depart from this city for his home in Tennessee, and the state of his health rendering it important that he should be accompanied by a medical attendant, the President directs that the Surgeon-General of the Army accompany the ex-President to Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, there to be relieved, in case the ex-President’s health shall be such as to allow it, by some officer of the Medical Department, who will attend the ex-President from that place to his residence.

In giving this order the President feels assured that this mark of attention to the venerable soldier, patriot, and statesman now retiring in infirm health from the cares of office to the repose of private life will be as grateful to the feelings of the American people as it appears to the President to be suitable in itself.