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and of the Independence of the United States of America the 116th.

By the President:

(L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON.

WILLIAM F. WHARTON, Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States, respecting a Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement between the United States and the Dominican Republic.-Washington, August 1, 1891.

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3 of the Act of Congress approved the 1st October, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of the Dominican Republic the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3, to wit, sugars, molasses, coffee, and hides, to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of

America:

And whereas the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington has communicated to the Special Plenipotentiary of the United States the fact that, in reciprocity and compensation for the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said Act, the Government of the Dominican Republic will, by due legal enactment, admit, from and after the 1st September, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of the Dominican Republic, the articles or merchandize named in the following Schedules, on the terms stated therein, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly from the ports of said States:

SCHEDULE (A).

Articles to be admitted free of Duty into the Dominican Republic.

1. Animals, live.

2. Meats of all kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked.

3. Corn or maize, corn-meal and starch.

4. Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.

5. Hay, bran, and straw for forage.

6. Trees, plante, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds for propagation.

7. Cotton-seed oil, and meal-cake of same.

8. Tallow, in cake or melted, and oil for machinery, subject to examination and proof respecting the use of said oil.

9. Resin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

10. Manures, natural and artificial.
11. Coal, mineral.

12. Mineral waters, natural and artificial.

13. Ice.

14. Machines, including steam-engines, and those of all other kinds, and parts of the same, implements and tools for agricultural, mining, manufacturing, industrial, and scientific purposes, including carts, waggons, hand-carts, and wheel-barrows, and parts of the same.

15. Material for the construction and equipment of railways.

16. Iron, cast and wrought, and steel, in pigs, bars, rods, plates, beams, rafters, and other similar articles for the construction of buildings, and in wire, nails, screws, and pipes.

17. Zine, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets, asbestos, tar-paper, tiles, slate, and other material for roofing.

18. Copper, in bars, plates, nails, and screws.

19. Copper and lead pipe.

20. Bricks, fire-bricks, cement, lime, artificial stone, paving tiles, marble and other stones, in rough, dressed, or polished, and other earthy materials used in building.

21. Windmills.

22. Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks, staples, nails, and similar articles used in the construction of fences.

23. Telegraph wire, and telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical apparatus of all kinds for communication and illumination.

21. Wood and lumber of all kinds for building, in logs or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, flooring, joists, wooden houses, mounted or unmounted, and accessory parts of buildings.

25. Cooperage of all kinds, including staves, headings, and hoops, barrels, and boxes, mounted or unmounted.

26. Materials for ship-building.

27. Boats and lighters.

28. School furniture, black-boards, and other articles exclusively for the use of schools.

29. Books, bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed matter, and paper for printing newspapers.

30. Printers' inks of all colours, type, leads, and all accessories for printing. 31. Sacks, empty, for packing sugar.

32. Gold and silver coin and bullion.

SCHEDULE (B).

Articles to be admitted into the Dominican Republic at a reduction of Duty of 25 per cent.

33. Meats not included in Schedule (A) and meat products of all kinds, except lard.

34. Butter, cheese, and condensed or canned milk.

35. Fish and shell-fish, salted, dried, smoked, pickled, or preserved in cans. 36. Fruits and vegetables, fresh, cauned, dried, pickled, or preserved.

37. Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in Schedule (A).

38. Cotton, manufactured, spun or twisted, and in fabrics of all kinds, woven or knit, and the same fabrics mixed with other vegetable or animal fibres in which cotton is the equal or greater component part.

39. Boots and shoes, in whole or in part of leather or skins.

40. Paper for writing, in envelopes, ruled or blank books, wall-paper, paper for wrapping and packing, for cigarettes, in cardboard, boxes and bags, sandpaper, and pasteboard.

41. Tin-plate and tin ware, for arts, industries, and domestic uses.

42. Cordage, rope, and twine, of all kinds.

43. Manufactures of wood of all kinds not embraced in Schedule (A), including wooden ware, implements for household use, and furniture, in whole or in part of wood.

And that the Government of the Dominican Republic has further provided that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing Schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported.

And whereas the Special Plenipotentiary of the United States has, by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington that this action of the Government of the Dominican Republic, in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into the Dominican Republic, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said Act:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications of the Tariff laws of the Dominican Republic to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 1st day of August, 1891, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 116th. (L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:

WILLIAM F. WHARTON, Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States, suspending the Collection of Tonnage Duty on Vessels from the Island of Tobago.-Washington, December 2, 1891.

WHEREAS Satisfactory proof has been given to me that no tonnage or lighthouse dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, are imposed upon vessels of the United States in the ports of the Island of Tobago, one of the British West India Islands:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 11 of the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the Laws relating to Shipping Commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes," approved the 19th June, 1886,* do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of this my Proclamation shall be suspended the collection of the whole of the tonnage duty which is imposed by said section of said Act upoɔn vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the Island of Tobago.

Provided, that there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of such country, or on the cargoes of such vessels; but this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation by foreign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other States of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most-favoured-nation clause in Treaties between the United States and such countries.

And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said ports of the Island of Tobago and no longer.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 2nd day of December,

* Vol. LXXVII, page 598.

in the year of Our Lord 1891, and of the Independence of the United States the 116th.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.

(L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON.

PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States, respecting a Reciprocal Commercial Arrangement between the United States and Salvador.-Washington, December 31, 1891.

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3 of the Act of Congress approved the 1st October, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Salvador the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America:

And whereas the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Salvador at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in reciprocity for the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said Act, the Government of Salvador will, by due legal enactment, as a provisional measure and until a more complete arrangement may be negotiated and put in operation, admit free of all duty, from and after the 1st February, 1892, into all the established ports of entry of Salvador, the articles or merchandize named in the following Schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States :

SCHEDULE.

Products and Manufactures which the Republic of Salvador will admit free of all Customs, Municipal, and any other kind of Duty.

1. Animals for breeding purposes.

2. Corn, rice, barley, and rye.

3. Beans.

4. Hay and straw, for forage.

5. Fruits, fresh.

6. Preparations of flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened, macaroni, ver

micelli, and tallarin.

7. Coal, mineral.

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