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SANTOS, Second Secretary to Presidential Palace , San José , May 22, 1883 . Let it be executed. P. FERNANDEZ, May 22, 1883
[Inclosure 1 in No. 241.—Translation.]
Law No. 6 of May 22, 1883, making Limon a free port.
The Constitutional Congress of the Republic of Costa Rica decrees:
- Article 1. The district of Limon is declared to be free of customs imports. The importation of material of war is alone excepted from the exemption established by this article.
- Art. 2. The Executive is authorized to make the demarkation of the zone which is declared free, for which the port of Limon and Rio Sucio must be taken as starting points.
- Art. 3. He is authorized also to remove the custom-house to Rio Sucio, to dictate all measures conducive to that end, and to incur the expenses required for the execution of this law.
- Art. 4. The exemptions thus established shall commence to take effect on the 10th day of August next, and shall continue during ten years.
Given in the hall of sessions of the national palace, at San José, the 22d day of May, 1883.
- JUAN M. CARAZO, President.
- VICENTE C. SEGREDA, First Secretary.
- A. SANTOS, Second Secretary.
Presidential Palace, San José, May 22, 1883.
Let it be executed.
P. FERNANDEZ.
The Secretary of State for the Department of Finance, Bernardo Soto.
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