Rafael Nuñez to F. Angulo, September 25, 1885

Decree No. 636.

The President of the United States of Columbia, in execution of article 8 of law 53 of 1884, decrees:

• Article 1. That, in accordance with said law, custom-houses be established in the ports of Panama and Colon, on and after the 1st of December next.
• Art. 2. That the import duties collected therein be the same as those collected at the other ports of the Republic, less 40 per cent.
• Art. 3. That the regulations common to the customs service in the other ports of the Republic shall govern in said ports. Consequently, that at foreign ports whence merchandise is shipped thither the usual formalities as to manifests and certified invoices as prescribed in articles 41, 42, 47, and 48 of the fiscal code be observed.