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7182. RECIPROCITY, Modification of.—

Where the circumstances of either party
render it expedient to levy a revenue, by way
of impost, on commerce, its freedom might
be modified, in that particular, by mutual
and equivalent measures, preserving it entire
in all others.—
Foreign Commerce Report. Washington ed. vii, 646. Ford ed., vi, 479.
(Dec. 1793)