the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides that--
SEC. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States
is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the
United States in the waters of Bering Sea, and it shall be the duty
of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his
proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month in at
least one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United
States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against
entering such waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of
said section, and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United
States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and
seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation
of the laws of the United States therein.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
pursuant to the above-recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against
entering the waters of Bering Sea within the dominion of the United
States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956,
Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be or
to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States
in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that
all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargoes,
will be seized and forfeited.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 4th day of April, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, pursuant to an act of Congress approved May 15, 1886, entitled
"An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses
of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various tribes for the year ending June 30, 1887, and for other
purposes," an agreement was entered into on the 14th day of December,
1886, by John V. Wright, Jared W. Daniels, and Charles F. Larrabee,
commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Arickaree, Gros
Ventre, and Mandan tribes of Indians, residing on the Fort Berthold
Reservation, in the then Territory of Dakota, now State of North Dakota,
embracing a majority of all the male adult members of said tribes; and
Whereas by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act
making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the
Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various
Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1892, and for other
purposes," the aforesaid agreement of December 14, 1886, was accepted,
ratified, and confirmed, except as to article 6 thereof, which was
modified and changed on the part of the United States so as to read
as follows:
That the residue of lands within said diminished reservation, after all
allotments have been made as provided in article 3 of this agreement,
shall be held by the said tribes of Indians as a reservation.
And whereas it is provided in said last above-mentioned act--
That this act shall take effect only upon the acceptance of the
modification and changes made by the United States as to article 6 of
the said agreement by the said tribes of Indians in manner and form as
said agreement was assented to, which said acceptance and consent shall
be made known by proclamation by the President of the United States,
upon satisfactory proof presented to him that the said acceptance and
consent have been obtained in such manner and form.
And whereas satisfactory proof has been presented to me that the
acceptance of and consent to the provisions of the act last named by
the different bands of Indians residing on said reservation have been
obtained in manner and form as said agreement of December 14, 1886,
was assented to:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby make known and proclaim the
acceptance of and consent to the modification and changes made by the
United States as to article 6 of said agreement by said tribe of Indians
as required by the act, and said act is hereby declared to be in full
force and effect, subject to all provisions, conditions, limitations,
and restrictions therein contained.
All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act and of the
conditions and restrictions therein contained, and be governed
accordingly.
I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that
a certain portion of the said Fort Berthold Reservation not ceded and
relinquished by said agreement is reserved for allotment to, and also
as a reservation for, the said tribes of Indians; and all persons are
therefore hereby warned not to go upon any of the lands so reserved for
any purpose or with any intent whatsoever, as no settlement or other
rights can be secured upon said lands, and all persons found unlawfully
thereon will be dealt with as trespassers and intruders; and I hereby
declare all the lands sold, ceded, and relinquished to the United States
under said agreement, namely, "all that portion of the Fort Berthold
Reservation, as laid down upon the official map of the" (then)
"Territory of Dakota published by the General Land Office in the year
1885, lying north of the forty-eighth parallel of north latitude, and
also all that portion lying west of a north and south line 6 miles west
of the most westerly point of the big bend of the Missouri River, south
of the forty-eighth parallel of north latitude," open to settlement and
subject to disposal as provided in section 25 of the act of March 3,
1891, aforesaid (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 1035).
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of May, A.D. 1891, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas an agreement for a _modus vivendi_ between the Government of the
United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in relation to
the fur-seal fisheries in Bering Sea was concluded on the 15th day of
June, A.D. 1891, word for word as follows:
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE GOVERNMENT
OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY FOR A MODUS VIVENDI IN RELATION TO THE FUR-SEAL
FISHERIES IN BERING SEA.
For the purpose of avoiding irritating differences and with a view to
promote the friendly settlement of the questions pending between the two
Governments touching their respective rights in Bering Sea, and for the
preservation of the seal species, the following agreement is made
without prejudice to the rights or claims of either party:
(1) Her Majesty's Government will prohibit until May next seal killing
in that part of Bering Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation
described in article No. 1 of the treaty of 1867 between the United
States and Russia, and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the
observance of this prohibition by British subjects and vessels.
(2) The United States Government will prohibit seal killing for the same
period in the same part of Bering Sea and on the shores and islands
thereof the property of the United States (in excess of 7,500 to be
taken on the islands for the subsistence and care of the natives), and
will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this
prohibition by United States citizens and vessels.
(3) Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in the
said waters of Bering Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of
the United States may be seized and detained by the naval or other duly
commissioned officers of either of the high contracting parties, but
they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities of
the nation to which they respectively belong, who shall alone have
jurisdiction to try the offense and impose the penalties for the same.
The witnesses and proofs necessary to establish the offense shall also
be sent with them.
(4) In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty's
Government may desire to make with a view to the presentation of the
case of that Government before arbitrators, and in expectation that an
agreement for arbitration may be arrived at, it is agreed that suitable
persons designated by Great Britain will be permitted at any time, upon
application, to visit or to remain upon the seal islands during the
present sealing season for that purpose.
Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washington, this 15th day of June,
1891, on behalf of their respective Governments, by William F. Wharton,
Acting Secretary of State of the United States, and Sir Julian
Pauncefote, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., H.B.M. envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary.
WILLIAM F. WHARTON. [SEAL.]
JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. [SEAL.]
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the
United States of America, have caused the said agreement to be made
public, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed
and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the
citizens thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of June, A.D. 1891, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3,
1891, entitled "An act to amend Title LX, chapter 3, of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act
"shall only apply to a citizen or a subject of a foreign state or nation
when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United
States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same
basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign state or nation is a
party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in
the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United
States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement;"
and
Whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of
either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President
of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the
purposes of this act may require;" and
Whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in
Belgium, France, Great Britain and the British possessions, and
Switzerland the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit
of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of those
countries:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States
of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions
specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in
respect to the citizens or subjects of Belgium, France, Great Britain,
and Switzerland.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 1st day of July, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October
1, 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 Spain 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 Spain at
Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State 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 Spain will by due legal enactment and as a
provisional measure admit, from and after September 1, 1891, into all
the established ports of entry of the Spanish islands of Cuba and Puerto
Rico the articles or merchandise named in the following transitory
schedule, 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:
TRANSITORY SCHEDULE.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico free of duties:
1. Meats, in brine, salted or smoked, bacon, hams, and meats preserved
in cans, in lard or by extraction of air, jerked beef excepted.
2. Lard.
3. Tallow and other animal greases, melted or crude, unmanufactured.
4. Fish and shellfish, live, fresh, dried, in brine, smoked, pickled,
oysters and salmon in cans.
5. Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.
6. Starch, maizena, and other alimentary products of corn, except corn
meal.
7. Cotton seed, oil and meal cake of said seed for cattle.
8. Hay, straw for forage, and bran.
9. Fruits, fresh, dried, and preserved, except raisins.
10. Vegetables and garden products, fresh and dried.
11. Resin of pine, tar, pitch, and turpentine.
12. Woods of all kinds, in trunks or logs, joists, rafters, planks,
beams, boards, round or cylindric masts, although cut, planed, and
tongued and grooved, including flooring.
13. Woods for cooperage, including staves, headings, and wooden hoops.
14. Wooden boxes, mounted or unmounted, except of cedar.
15. Woods, ordinary, manufactured into doors, frames, windows, and
shutters, without paint or varnish, and wooden houses, unmounted,
without paint or varnish.
16. Wagons and carts for ordinary roads and agriculture.
17. Sewing machines.
18. Petroleum, raw or unrefined, according to the classification fixed
in the existing orders for the importation of this article in said
islands.
19. Coal, mineral.
20. Ice.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico on payment of the duties stated:
21. Corn or maize, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
22. Corn meal, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
23. Wheat, from January 1, 1892, 30 cents per 100 kilograms.
24. Wheat flour, from January 1, 1892, $1 per 100 kilograms.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico at a reduction of duty of 25 per cent:
25. Butter and cheese.
26. Petroleum, refined.
27. Boots and shoes in whole or in part of leather or skins.
And whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
Spain in Washington has further communicated to the Secretary of State
that the Government of Spain will in like manner and as a definitive
arrangement admit, from and after July 1, 1892, into all the established
ports of, entry of the Spanish islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico the
articles or merchandise named in the following schedules A, B, C, and D,
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.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico free of duties:
1. Marble, jasper, and alabaster, natural or artificial, in rough or
in pieces, dressed, squared, and prepared for taking shape.
2. Other stones and earthy matters, including cement, employed in
building, the arts and industries.
3. Waters, mineral or medicinal.
4. Ice.
5. Coal, mineral.
6. Resin, tar, pitch, turpentine, asphalt, schist, and bitumen.
7. Petroleum, raw or crude, in accordance with the classification
fixed in the tariff of said islands.
8. Clay, ordinary, in paving tiles, large and small, bricks, and roof
tiles unglazed, for the construction of buildings, ovens, and other
similar purposes.
9. Gold and silver coin.
10. Iron, cast, in pigs, and old iron and steel.
11. Iron, cast, in pipes, beams, rafters, and similar articles for
the construction of buildings and in ordinary manufactures.
(See repertory.)
12. Iron, wrought, and steel, in bars, rails and bars of all kinds,
plates, beams, rafters, and other similar articles for construction
of buildings.
13. Iron, wrought, and steel, in wire, nails, screws, nuts, and pipes.
14. Iron, wrought, and steel, in ordinary manufactures, and wire cloth
unmanufactured. (See repertory.)
15. Cotton, raw, with or without seed.
16. Cotton seed, oil and meal cake of same for cattle.
17. Tallow and all other animal greases, melted or crude,
unmanufactured.
18. Books and pamphlets, printed, bound and unbound.
19. Woods of all kinds, in trunks or logs, joists, rafters, planks,
beams, boards, and round or cylindric masts, although cut, planed,
tongued and grooved, including flooring.
20. Wooden cooperage, including staves, headings, and wooden hoops.
21. Wooden boxes, mounted or unmounted, except of cedar.
22. Woods, ordinary, manufactured into doors, frames, windows, and
shutters, without paint or varnish, and wooden houses, unmounted,
without paint or varnish.
23. Woods, ordinary, manufactured into all kinds of articles, turned or
unturned, painted or varnished, except furniture. (See repertory.)
24. Manures, natural or artificial.
25. Implements, utensils, and tools for agriculture, the arts, and
mechanical trades.
26. Machines and apparatus, agricultural, motive, industrial, and
scientific, of all classes and materials, and loose pieces for the
same, including wagons, carts, and handcarts for ordinary roads
and agriculture.
27. Material and articles for public works, such as railroads,
tramways, roads, canals for irrigation and navigation, use of
waters, ports, light-houses, and civil construction of general
utility, when introduced by authorization of the Government or if
free admission is obtained in accordance with local laws.
28. Materials of all classes for the construction, repair in whole or
in part of vessels, subject to specific regulations to avoid abuse
in the importation.
29. Meats, in brine, salted and smoked, including bacon, hams, and
meats preserved in cans, in lard or by extraction of air, jerked
beef excepted.
30. Lard and butter.
31. Cheese.
32. Fish and shellfish, live, fresh, dried, in brine, salted, smoked,
and pickled, oysters and salmon in cans.
33. Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.
34. Starch, maizena, and other alimentary products of corn, except corn
meal.
35. Fruits, fresh, dried, and preserved, except raisins.
36. Vegetables and garden products, fresh and dried.
37. Hay, straw for forage, and bran.
38. Trees, plants, shrubs, and garden seeds.
39. Tan bark.
SCHEDULE B.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico on payment of the duties stated:
40. Corn or maize, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
41. Corn meal, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
42. Wheat, 30 cents per 100 kilograms.
43. Wheat flour, $1 per 100 kilograms.
44. Carriages, cars and other vehicles for railroads or tramways,
where authorization of the Government for free admission has not
been obtained, 1 per cent _ad valorem_.
SCHEDULE C.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico at a reduction of duty of 50 per cent:
45. Marble, jasper, and alabaster of all kinds, cut into flags, slabs,
or steps, and the same worked or carved in all kinds of articles,
polished or not.
46. Glass and crystal ware, plate and window glass, and the same
silvered, quicksilvered, and platinized.
47. Clay in tiles, large and small, and mosaic for pavement, colored
tiles, roof tiles glazed, and pipes.
48. Stoneware and fine earthenware, and porcelain.
49. Iron, cast, in fine manufactures or those polished, with coating of
porcelain or part of other metals. (See repertory.)
50. Iron, wrought, and steel, in axles, tires, springs, and wheels for
carriages, rivets and their washers.
51. Iron, wrought, and steel, in fine manufactures or those polished,
with coating of porcelain or part of other metals, not expressly
comprised in other numbers of these schedules, and platform scales
for weighing. (See repertory.)
52. Needles, pens, knives (table and carving), razors, penknives,
scissors, pieces for watches, and other similar articles of iron
and steel.
53. Tin plate in sheets or manufactured.
54. Copper, bronze, brass, and nickel, and alloys of same with common
metals, in lump or bars, and all manufactures of the same.
55. All other common metals and alloys of the same, in lump or bars,
and all manufactures of the same, plain, varnished, gilt, silvered,
or nickeled.
56. Furniture of all kinds, of wood or metal, including school
furniture, blackboards, and other materials for schools, and all
kinds of articles of fine woods not expressly comprised in other
numbers of these schedules. (See repertory.)
57. Rushes, esparto, vegetable hair, broom corn, willow, straw, palm,
and other similar materials, manufactured into articles of all
kinds.
58. Pastes for soups, rice flour, bread and crackers, and alimentary
farinas not comprised in other numbers of these schedules.
59. Preserved alimentary substances and canned goods not comprised in
other numbers of these schedules, including sausages, stuffed
meats, mustards, sauces, pickles, jams, and jellies.
60. Rubber and gutta-percha and manufactures thereof, alone or mixed
with other substances (except silk), and oilcloths and tarpaulin.
61. Rice, hulled or unhulled.
SCHEDULE D.
Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico at a reduction of duty of 25 per cent:
62. Petroleum, refined, and benzine.
63. Cotton, manufactured, spun or twisted, and in goods of all kinds,
woven or knit, and the same mixed with other vegetable or animal
fibers in which cotton is an equal or greater component part, and
clothing exclusively of cotton.
64. Rope, cordage, and twine of all kinds.
65. Colors, crude and prepared, with or without oil, inks of all kinds,
shoe blacking, and varnishes.
66. Soap, toilet, and perfumery.
67. Medicines, proprietary or patent and all others, and drugs.
68. Stearine and tallow manufactured in candles.
69. Paper for printing, for decorating rooms, of wood or straw, for
wrapping and packing, and bags and boxes of same, sandpaper and
pasteboard.
70. Leather and skins, tanned, dressed, varnished, or japanned, of all
kinds, including sole leather or belting.
71. Boots and shoes in whole or in part of leather or skins.
72. Trunks, valises, traveling bags, portfolios, and other similar
articles in whole or in part of leather.
73. Harness and saddlery of all kinds.
74. Watches and clocks of gold, silver, or other metals, with cases of
stone, wood, or other material, plain or ornamented.
75. Carriages of two or four wheels and pieces of the same.
It is understood that flour which on its exportation from the United
States has been favored with drawbacks shall not share in the foregoing
reduction of duty.
The provisional arrangement as set forth in the transitory schedule
shall come to an end on July 1, 1892, and on that date be substituted by
the definitive arrangement as set forth in schedules A, B, C, and D.
And that the Government of Spain 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 Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance
to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain at
Washington that this action of the Government of Spain in granting
exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United
States of America on their importation into Cuba and Puerto Rico is
accepted for those islands 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 Cuba and Puerto Rico 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.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 31st day of July, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October
1, 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 September 1, 1891, into all the established ports of
entry of the Dominican Republic the articles or merchandise 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, plants, 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, wagons, handcarts, and wheelbarrows, 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. Zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets,
asbestus, 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.
24. 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 shipbuilding.
27. Boats and lighters.
28. School furniture, blackboards, 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 colors, 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 shellfish, salted, dried, smoked, pickled, or preserved
in cans.
36. Fruits and vegetables, fresh, canned, 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 fibers 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 tinware 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.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 1st day of August, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by section 24 of an act approved March 3, 1891,
entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other
purposes"--
That the President of the United States may from time to time set
apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing
forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with
timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public
reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare
the establishment of such reservations and limits thereof.
And whereas the lands hereinafter described are public and forest
bearing, and on the 30th of March last I issued a proclamation[17]
intended to reserve the same as authorized in said act, but as some
question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimed being sufficiently
definite to cover the forests intended to be reserved:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said
reservation more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said
act, do hereby issue this my second proclamation and hereby set apart,
reserve, and establish as a public reservation all that tract of land
situate in the State of Wyoming embraced within the following boundary:
Beginning at a point on the parallel of 44° 50' north latitude where
said parallel is intersected by the east boundary of the Yellowstone
National Park; thence due east along said parallel 24-1/2 miles; thence
due south to the parallel of 44° north latitude; thence due west along
said parallel to its point of intersection with the west boundary of
the State of Wyoming; thence due north along said boundary to its
intersection with the south boundary of the Yellowstone National Park;
thence due east along the south boundary of said park to the southeast
corner thereof; thence due north along the east boundary of said park
to the place of beginning.
And warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or
make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of September, A.D. 1891,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
fifteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
[Footnote 17: See pp. 142-143.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by a written agreement made on the 12th day of June, 1890, the
Sac and Fox Nation of Indians, in the Territory of Oklahoma, ceded and
conveyed to the United States of America all title or interest of said
Indians in and to the lands particularly described in Article I of the
agreement, except the quarter section of land on which the Sac and Fox
Agency is located, and provided that the section of land now designated
and set apart near the Sac and Fox Agency for a school and farm shall
not be subject either to allotment or to homestead entry; that every
citizen of said nation shall have an allotment of land in quantity as
therein stated, to be selected within the tract of country so ceded,
except in sections 16 and 36 in each Congressional township, and except
the agency quarter section and section set apart for school and farm,
as above mentioned, or other lands selected in lieu thereof; that when
the allotments to the citizens of the Sac and Fox Nation are made the
Secretary of the Interior shall cause trust patents to issue therefor in
the name of the allottees, and that as soon as such allotments are so
made and approved by the Department of the Interior, and the patents
provided for are issued, then the residue of said tract of country
shall, as far as said Sac and Fox Nation is concerned, become public
lands of the United States, and, under such restrictions as may be
imposed by law, be subject to white settlement; and
Whereas by a certain other agreement with the Iowa tribe of Indians
residing on the Iowa Reservation, in said Territory, made on the 20th
day of May, 1890, said tribe surrendered and relinquished to the United
States all their title and interest in and to the lands of said Indians
in said Territory, and particularly described in Article I of said
agreement, and provided that each and every member of said tribe shall
have an allotment of 80 acres of land upon said reservation, and upon
the approval of such allotments by the Secretary of the Interior that
trust patents shall be issued therefor, and that there shall be excepted
from the operation of said agreement a tract of land not exceeding
10 acres, in a square form, including the church and schoolhouse and
graveyard at or near the Iowa village, which shall belong to said Iowa
tribe of Indians in common, subject to the conditions and limitations
in said agreement expressed; that the chief of the Iowas may select an
additional 10 acres, in a square form, for the use of said tribe in said
reservation, conforming in boundaries to the legal subdivisions of land
therein, which shall be held by said tribe in common, subject to the
conditions and limitations as expressed in relation thereto; and
Whereas it is provided-in the act of Congress approved February 13,
1891 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 758, 759), section 7, accepting,
ratifying, and confirming said agreements with the Sac and Fox Nation
of Indians and the Iowa tribe of Indians--
That whenever any of the lands acquired by the agreements in this act
ratified and confirmed shall by operation of law or proclamation of
the President of the United States be open to settlement they shall
be disposed of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the
homestead laws, except section 2301, which shall not apply: _Provided,
however_, That each settler under and in accordance with the provisions
of said homestead laws shall before receiving a patent for his homestead
pay to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to
the fees provided by law, the sum of $1.25 for each acre thereof; and
such person, having complied with all the laws relating to such
homestead settlement, may at his option receive a patent therefor at the
expiration of twelve months from date of settlement upon said homestead;
and any person otherwise qualified who has attempted to but for any
cause failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law,
or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the
homestead law, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon any of
said lands.
And whereas by a certain other agreement with the Citizen band of
Pottawatomie Indians, in said Territory, made on the 25th day of June,
1890, the said band of Indians ceded and absolutely surrendered to the
United States all their title and interest in and to the lands in said
Territory, and particularly described in Article I of said agreement,
and provided that all allotments of land theretofore made, or then being
made, or to be made, to members of said Citizen band of Pottawatomie
Indians under the provisions of the general allotment act approved
February 8, 1887, shall be confirmed; that in all allotments to be
thereafter made no person shall have the right to select his or her
allotment in sections 16 and 36 in any Congressional township, nor upon
any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country for any use by
the United States, or for schools, school-farm, or religious purposes;
nor shall said sections 16 and 36 be subject to homestead entry, but
shall be kept and used for school purposes; nor shall any lands set
apart for any use of the United States, or for school, school-farm, or
religious purposes, be subject to homestead entry, but shall be held by
the United States for such purposes so long as the United States shall
see fit to use them; and further, that the south half of section 7
and the north half of section 18, in township 6 north, range 5 east,
theretofore set apart by a written agreement between said band of
Indians and certain Catholic fathers for religious, school, and farm
purposes, shall not be subject to allotment or homestead entry, but
shall be held by the United States for the Sacred Heart Mission, the
name under which said association of fathers are conducting the church,
school, and farm on said lands; and
Whereas by a certain agreement with the Absentee Shawnee Indians, in
said Territory, made on the 26th day of June, 1890, said last-named
Indians ceded, relinquished, and surrendered to the United States all
their title and interest in and to the lands in said Territory, and
particularly described in Article I of said agreement, provided that all
allotments of lands theretofore made, or then being made, or to be made,
to said Absentee Shawnees under the provisions of the general allotment
act approved February 8, 1887, shall be confirmed; that in all
allotments to be thereafter made no person shall have the right to
select his or her allotment in sections 16 and 36 in any Congressional
township, nor in any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country
for any use by the United States, or for school, school-farm, or
religious purposes; nor shall said sections 16 and 36 be subject to
homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States for such
purposes so long as the United States shall see fit to use them; and
Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and
confirming said agreements with the Citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians
and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, approved March 3, 1891 (26 U.S.
Statutes at Large, pp. 989-1044), section 16--
That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the * * * foregoing
agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma Territory shall by
operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States
be open to settlement they shall be disposed of to actual settlers only,
under the provisions of the homestead and town-site laws, except section
2301 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which-shall not
apply: _Provided, however_, That each settler on said lands shall before
making a final proof and receiving a certificate of entry pay to the
United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees
provided by law, and within five years from the date of the first
original entry, the sum of $1.50 per acre, one-half of which shall be
paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged Union
soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections 2304 and 2305
of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged
except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid; and all the lands in
Oklahoma are hereby declared to be agricultural lands, and proof of
their nonmineral character shall not be required as a condition
precedent to final entry.
And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Sac and Fox Nation,
said Iowa tribe, said Citizen band of Pottawatomies, and said Absentee
Shawnee Indians have been made and approved, and provisional patents
issued therefor, in accordance with law and the provisions of the
before-mentioned agreements with them respectively, and an additional
10 acres of land has been selected for the use of said Iowa tribe, to
be held by said tribe in common, in accordance with the provisions of
supplemental Article XII of the agreement with them; and
Whereas the lands acquired by the four several agreements hereinbefore
mentioned have been divided into counties by the Secretary of the
Interior, as required by said last-mentioned act of Congress before the
same shall be open to settlement, and lands have been reserved for
county-seat purposes, as therein required; and
Whereas it is provided by act of Congress for temporary government of
Oklahoma, approved May 2, 1890, that there shall be reserved public
highways 4 rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the
section lines being the centers of said highways, but no deduction shall
be made from cash payments from each quarter section by reason thereof;
and
Whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said
several agreements made respectively with said tribes of Indians
hereinbefore mentioned, and of the laws relating thereto, precedent
to opening said several tracts of land to settlement, have been, as
I hereby declare, provided for, paid, and complied with:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned,
also an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the
current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June
30, 1890, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1889, and by other
the laws of the United States, and by said several agreements, do hereby
declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Sac and
Fox Nation of Indians, the Iowa tribe of Indians, the Citizen band of
Pottawatomie Indians, and the Absentee Shawnee Indians by the four
several agreements aforesaid, saving and excepting the lands allotted
to the Indians as in said agreements provided, or otherwise reserved
in pursuance of the provisions of said agreements and the said acts of
Congress ratifying the same and other the laws relating thereto, will,
at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time),
Tuesday, the 22d day of this the present month of September, and not
before, be opened to settlement, under the terms of and subject to all
the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained
in said agreements, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the
United States applicable thereto.
The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience
particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule
of lands within the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie (and Absentee
Shawnee) reservations, in Oklahoma Territory, opened to settlement by
proclamation of the President dated September 18, 1891," and which
schedule is made a part hereof.
Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable; and no
other lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are opened to settlement under
this proclamation or the agreements ratifying the same.
Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until
said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation no person shall be
permitted to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person violating
this provision shall be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire
any right thereto. The officers of the United States will be required to
enforce this provision.
And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that
the lands in the Territory of Oklahoma mentioned and included in this
proclamation be, and the same are, attached to the Eastern and Oklahoma
land districts in said Territory, severally, as follows:
1. All that portion of the Territory of Oklahoma commencing at the
southwest corner of township 14 north, range 1 east; thence east on
town line between townships 13 and 14 to the west boundary of the
Creek country; thence north on said boundary line to the middle of main
channel of the Cimarron River; thence up the Cimarron River, following
the main channel thereof, to the Indian meridian; thence south on said
meridian line to the place of beginning, is attached to the Eastern
land district in Oklahoma Territory, the office of which is now located
at Guthrie.
2. All that portion of said Territory commencing at the northwest
corner of township 13 north, range 1 east; thence south on Indian
meridian to the North Fork of the Canadian River; thence west up said
river to the west boundary of the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation,
according to Merrill's survey; thence south, following the line as run
by O.T. Morrill under his contract of September 3, 1872, to the middle
of the main channel of the Canadian River; thence east down the main
channel of said river to the west boundary of the Seminole Indian
Reservation; thence north with said west boundary to the North Fork
of the Canadian River; thence east down said North Fork to the west
boundary of the Creek Nation; thence north with said west boundary to
its intersection with the line between townships 13 and 14 north of the
Indian base; thence west on town line between townships 13 and 14 north
to the place of beginning, is attached to the Oklahoma land district in
said Territory, the office of which is now located at Oklahoma City.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of September, A.D. 1891,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and
for other purposes"--
That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart
and reserve in any State or Territory having public lands bearing
forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with
timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public
reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare
the establishment of such reservation and the limits thereof.
And whereas the public lands in the State of Colorado within the limits
hereinafter described are in part covered with timber, and it appears
that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving
said lands as a public reservation:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 of the aforesaid act
of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation
all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being
situate in the State of Colorado and particularly described as follows,
to wit:
Beginning at a point between sections three (3) and four (4) on the
north boundary of township five (5) south, range eighty-seven (87) west
of the sixth principal meridian in Colorado; thence north 12 miles;
thence east to the southeast corner of township two (2) south, range
eighty-six (86) west; thence north between ranges numbered eighty-five
(85) and eighty-six (86) west to the base line; thence west along the
base line to the southwest corner of township one (1) north, range
eighty-five (85) west; thence north between ranges numbered eighty-five
(85) and eighty-six (86) west to a point between sections thirteen (13)
and twenty-four (24) on the east boundary of township five (5) north,
range eighty-six (86) west; thence west through the middle of township
five (5) north to the center of township five (5) north, range
ninety-one (91) west; thence south to a point between sections three
(3) and four (4) on the north boundary of township two (2) north, range
ninety-one (91) west; thence west six (6) miles to a point between
sections three (3) and four (4) on the north boundary of township two
(2) north, range ninety-two (92) west; thence south to a point on the
base line between sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) of
township one (1) north, range ninety-two (92) west; thence west along
the base line to a point between sections three (3) and four (4) on the
north boundary of township one (1) south, range ninety-two (92) west;
thence south to a point between sections three (3) and four (4) on the
north boundary of township two (2) south, range ninety-two (92) west;
thence west to the northwest corner of township two (2) south, range
ninety-three (93) west; thence south to the southwest corner of township
three (3) south, range ninety-three (93) west; thence east to the
northeast corner of township four (4) south, range ninety-two (92) west;
thence south to the southeast corner of township four (4) south, range
ninety-two (92) west; thence east to the place of beginning.
Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all land which
may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any valid entry or
covered by a lawful filing duly made in the proper United States land
office, and all mining claims duly located and held according to the
laws of the United States and local rules and regulations not in
conflict therewith.
_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any
particular tract of land unless the entryman or claimant continues to
comply with the law under which the entry, filing, or location was made.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 16th day of October, A.D. 1891, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
It is a very glad incident of the marvelous prosperity which has crowned
the year now drawing to a close that its helpful and reassuring touch
has been felt by all our people. It has been as wide as our country, and
so special that every home has felt its comforting influence. It is too
great to be the work of man's power and too particular to be the device
of his mind. To God, the beneficent and the all-wise, who makes the
labors of men to be fruitful, redeems their losses by His grace, and the
measure of whose giving is as much beyond the thoughts of man as it is
beyond his deserts, the praise and gratitude of the people of this
favored nation are justly due.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of
America, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November present,
to be a day of joyful thanksgiving to God for the bounties of His
providence, for the peace in which we are permitted to enjoy them, and
for the preservation of those institutions of civil and religious
liberty which He gave our fathers the wisdom to devise and establish and
us the courage to preserve. Among the appropriate observances of the day
are rest from toil, worship in the public congregation, the renewal of
family ties about our American firesides, and thoughtful helpfulness
toward those who suffer lack of the body or of the spirit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of November, A.D. 1891,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me that no tonnage or
light-house 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 June 19, 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 upon 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-favored-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.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of December, A.D. 1891, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 19, 1891_.
The death of George Bancroft, which occurred in the city of Washington
on Saturday, January 17, at 3.40 o'clock p.m., removes from among the
living one of the most distinguished Americans. As an expression of the
public loss and sorrow the flags of all the Executive Departments at
Washington and the public buildings in the cities through which the
funeral party is to pass will be placed at half-mast on to-morrow and
until the body of this eminent statesman, scholar, and historian shall
rest in the State that gave him to his country and to the world.
By direction of the President:
ELIJAH W. HALFORD, _Private Secretary_.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
JANUARY 26, 1891.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the
exceptions from examination therein declared the following:
In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary,
division of illustration and engraving: One artist.
BENJ. HARRISON.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, _Washington, January 30, 1891_.
SIR:[18] The Hon. William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, died suddenly last night, in the city of New York, at the
hour of eleven minutes past 10 o'clock, in the sixty-fourth year of his
age. Thus has passed away a man of pure life, an official of stainless
integrity, distinguished by long and eminent service in both branches of
Congress and by being twice called to administer the national finances.
His death has caused deep regret throughout the country, while to the
President and those associated with him in the administration of the
Government it comes as a personal sorrow.
The President directs that all the Departments of the executive brand of
the Government and the officers subordinate thereto shall manifest due
respect to the memory of this eminent citizen in a manner consonant with
the dignity of the office which he has honored by his devotion to public
duty.
The President further directs that the Treasury Department in all its
branches in this capital be draped in mourning for the period of thirty
days, that on the day of the funeral the several Executive Departments
shall be closed, and that on all public buildings throughout the United
States the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast.
Very respectfully,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
[Footnote 18: Addressed to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 13, 1891_.
_To the Heads of the Executive Departments_:
In token of respect to the memory of Admiral David D. Porter, who died
this morning, the President directs that the national flag be displayed
at half-mast upon all public buildings throughout the United States
until after his funeral shall have taken place, and that on the day of
the funeral public business in the Departments at Washington be
suspended.
E.W. HALFORD, _Private Secretary_.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 16.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
_Washington, February 14, 1891_.
I. The following order of the War Department is published to the Army:
WAR DEPARTMENT, _Washington, February 14, 1891_.
The death of General Sherman is hereby announced in the fitting words
of the President in his message to Congress:
[For message see p. 135.]
The following Executive order will be published to the Army:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., February 14, 1891_.
It is my painful duty to announce to the country that General William
Tecumseh Sherman died this day at 1 o'clock and 50 minutes p.m., at his
residence in the city of New York. The Secretary of War will cause the
highest military honors to be paid to the memory of this distinguished
officer. The national flag will be floated at half-mast over all public
buildings until after the burial, and the public business will be
suspended in the Executive Departments at the city of Washington and in
the city where the interment takes place on the day of the funeral and
in all places where public expression is given to the national sorrow
during such hours as will enable every officer and employee to
participate therein with their fellow-citizens.
BENJ. HARRISON.
The Major-General Commanding will issue the necessary orders to the
Army.
_It is ordered_, That the War Department be draped in mourning for the
period of thirty days, and that all business be suspended therein on the
day of the funeral.
L.A. GRANT, _Acting Secretary of War_.
II. On the day of the funeral the troops at every military post will be
paraded and this order read to them, after which all labors for the day
will cease. The national flag will be displayed at half-staff from the
time of the receipt of this order until the close of the funeral. On the
day of the funeral a salute of seventeen guns will be fired at half-hour
intervals, commencing at 8 o'clock a.m. The officers of the Army will
wear the usual badges of mourning, and the colors of the several
regiments and battalions will be draped in mourning for a period of six
months.
The day and hour of the funeral will be communicated to department
commanders by telegraph, and by them to their subordinate commanders.
Other necessary orders will be issued hereafter relative to the
appropriate funeral ceremonies.
By command of Major-General Schofield:
J.C. KELTON, _Adjutant-General_.
GENERAL ORDER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, _February 16, 1891_.
The following Executive order, announcing the death of General William
Tecumseh Sherman, is published for the information of the Navy and the
Marine Corps:
[For Executive order see preceding page.]
In accordance with the order of the President, the Navy Department will
be closed and all business suspended therein on the day of the funeral,
and the flag at all yards and stations will be displayed at half-mast
until after the burial of General Sherman, and in all places where
public expression is given to the national sorrow business will be
suspended at navy-yards or stations during such hours as will enable
officers and employees of the Navy to participate therein with their
fellow-citizens.
B.F. TRACY, _Secretary of the Navy_.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
FEBRUARY 18, 1891.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among
the places excepted from examination therein the following:
In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary:
Private secretary to the chief of the division of statistics.
BENJ. HARRISON.
AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.
FEBRUARY 21, 1891.
Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among
the places excepted from examination therein the following:
In the Department of the Treasury, in the Coast and Geodetic Survey:
Clerk to act as confidential clerk and cashier to the disbursing
officer.
In the Post-Office Department, office of Assistant Attorney-General:
Confidential clerk to the Assistant Attorney-General.
BENJ. HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., February 26, 1891_.
In accordance with an act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, the
following limits to the punishment of enlisted men, together with the
accompanying regulations, are established for the government in time of
peace of all courts-martial, and will take effect thirty days after the
date of this order:
I. Subject to the modifications authorized in subdivision 3 of this
section, the punishment for desertion shall not exceed the following:
1. In the case of a soldier who surrenders--
(_a_) When such surrender is made within thirty days after desertion,
confinement at hard labor, with forfeiture of pay and allowances, for
three months.
(_b_) When such surrender is made after an absence of more than thirty
days and not more than ninety days, confinement at hard labor, with
forfeiture of pay and allowances, for six months.
(_c_) When such surrender is made after an absence of more than ninety
days, dishonorable discharge, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances,
and confinement at hard labor for eighteen months: _Provided_, That in
the case of a deserter who had not been more than three months in the
service the confinement shall not exceed ten months.
2. In the case of a soldier who does not surrender--
(_a_) When at the time of desertion he shall have been less than three
months in the service, dishonorable discharge, with forfeiture of all
pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for one year.
(_b_) When at the time of desertion he shall have been three months or
more, but less than six months, in the service, dishonorable discharge,
with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor
for eighteen months.
(_c_) When at the time of desertion he shall have been six months or
more in the service, dishonorable discharge, with forfeiture of all pay
and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for two years and six
months.
3. The foregoing limitations will be subject to modification under the
following conditions:
(_a_) The punishment of a deserter may be increased by one year of
confinement at hard labor in consideration of each previous conviction
of desertion, and also by dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all
pay and allowances when not already authorized.
(_b_) The punishment for desertion when joined in by two or more
soldiers in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the
presence of an outbreak of Indians or of any unlawful assemblage which
the troops may be opposing, shall not exceed dishonorable discharge,
forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor
for five years.
II. Except as herein otherwise indicated, punishments shall not exceed
the limits prescribed in the following table:
Offenses. Limit of punishment.
_Under seventeenth
article of war_.
Selling horse or arms, Three years' confinement at hard
either or both labor; for noncommissioned officer,
reduction in addition thereto.[19]
Selling accouterments Four months confinement at hard
labor; for noncommissioned officer,
reduction in addition thereto.[19]
Selling clothing Two months' confinement at hard
labor; for noncommissioned officer,
reduction in addition thereto.[19]
Losing or spoiling horse Four months' confinement at hard
or arms through neglect labor; for noncommissioned officer,
reduction in addition thereto.[19]
Losing or spoiling One month's confinement at hard
accouterments or clothing labor; for noncommissioned officer,
through neglect reduction in addition thereto.[19]
_Under twentieth article of war_.
Behaving himself with Six months' confinement at hard labor
disrespect toward his and forfeiture of $10 per month for
commanding officer the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
_Under twenty-fourth article of war_.
Refusal to obey or using Dishonorable discharge, with
violence to officer or forfeiture of all pay and allowances,
noncommissioned officer and imprisonment for 2 years.
while quelling quarrels
or disorders
_Under thirty-first article of war_.
Lying out of quarters Forfeiture of $2; corporal, $3;
sergeant, $4.
_Under thirty-second article of war_.
Absence without leave--
Less than 1 hour (not Forfeiture of 50 cents; corporal, $1;
including absence from sergeant, $2.
a roll call)
Less than 1 hour Forfeiture of $1; corporal, $2;
(including absence from sergeant, $3; first sergeant or
a roll call) noncommissioned officer of higher
grade, $4.
From 1 to 6 hours Forfeiture of $2; corporal, $3;
sergeant, $4; first sergeant or
noncommissioned officer of higher
grade, $5.
From 6 to 12 hours Forfeiture of $3; corporal, $4;
sergeant, $6; first sergeant or
noncommissioned officer of higher
grade, $7.
From 12 to 24 hours Forfeiture of $5; corporal, $6;
sergeant, $7; first sergeant or
noncommissioned officer of higher
grade, $10.
From 24 to 48 hours Forfeiture of $6 and 5 days'
confinement at hard labor. For
corporal, forfeiture of $8; sergeant,
$10; first sergeant or noncommissioned
officer of higher grade, $12; or
for all noncommissioned officers,
reduction.
From 2 to 9 days Forfeiture of $10 and 10 days'
confinement at hard labor; for
noncommissioned officer, reduction
in addition thereto.
From 10 to 29 days Forfeiture of $20 and 1 month's
confinement at hard labor; for
noncommissioned officer, reduction
in addition thereto.
From 30 to 90 days Three months' confinement at hard
labor and forfeiture of $10 per month
for same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
For more than 90 days Dishonorable discharge and forfeiture
of all pay and allowances and 3
months' confinement at hard labor.
_Under thirty-third article of war_.
Failure to repair at the time
fixed, etc., to the place of
parade for--
Reveille or retreat roll call Forfeiture of 50 cents; corporal, $1;
sergeant, $2; first sergeant, $3.
Guard detail Forfeiture of $5; corporal, $8;
sergeant, $10.
Fatigue detail }
Dress parade }
The weekly inspection }
Target practice } Forfeiture of $2; corporal, $3;
Drill } sergeant, $5.
Guard mounting (by musician) }
Stable duty }
_Under thirty-eighth article of war_.
Drunkenness on--
Guard Six months' confinement at hard labor
and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
Duty as company cook Forfeiture of $10.
Extra or special duty }
At drill }
At target practice }
At parade } Forfeiture of $6; for
At inspection } noncommissioned officer, reduction
At inspection of company guard } and forfeiture of $10.
detail }
At stable duty }
_Under fortieth article of war_.
Quitting guard Six months' confinement at hard labor
and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
_Under fifty-first article of war_.
Persuading soldiers to desert Six months' confinement at hard labor
and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
_Under sixtieth article of war_ Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 4
years' imprisonment.
_Under sixty-second article of war_.
Manslaughter Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 10
years' imprisonment.
Assault with intent to kill Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 10
years' imprisonment.
Burglary Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 5
years' imprisonment.
Forgery Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 4
years' imprisonment.
Perjury Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 4
years' imprisonment.
False swearing Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 2
years' imprisonment.
Robbery Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 6
years' imprisonment.
Larceny or embezzlement of
property of the value of--[20]
More than $100 Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 4
years' imprisonment.
$100 or less and more than $50 Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 3
years' imprisonment.
$50 or less and more than $20 Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 2
years' imprisonment.
$20 or less Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture
of all pay and allowances, and 1
year's imprisonment.
Disobedience of orders, Six months' confinement at hard
involving willful defiance labor and forfeiture of $10 per
of the authority of a month for the same period; for
noncommissioned officer in noncommissioned officer, reduction
charge of a guard or party in addition thereto.
Using threatening or insulting One month's confinement at hard
language or behaving in an labor and forfeiture of $10; for
insubordinate manner to a noncommissioned officer, reduction
noncommissioned officer while in addition thereto.
in the execution of his office
Absence from fatigue duty Forfeiture of $4; corporal, $5;
sergeant, $6.
Absence from extra or special Forfeiture of $4; corporal, $5;
duty sergeant, $6.
Absence from duty as company Forfeiture of $10.
or hospital cook
Introducing liquor into post or Forfeiture of $3; for noncommissioned
camp in violation of standing officer, reduction and forfeiture
orders of $5.
Drunkenness at post or Forfeiture of $3; for noncommissioned
in quarters officer, reduction and forfeiture
of $5.
Drunkenness and disorderly Forfeiture of $10 and 7 days'
conduct, causing the offender's confinement at hard labor; for
arrest and conviction by civil noncommissioned officer, reduction
authorities at a place within and forfeiture of $12.
10 miles of his station
Noisy or disorderly conduct in Forfeiture of $4; corporal, $7;
quarters sergeant, $10.
Abuse by noncommissioned Reduction, 3 months' confinement at
officer of his authority over hard labor, and forfeiture of $10 per
an inferior month for the same period.
Noncommissioned officer Reduction and forfeiture of $5.
encouraging gambling
Noncommissioned officer making Reduction, forfeiture of $8, and 10
false report days' confinement at hard labor.
Sentinel allowing a prisoner Six months' confinement at hard labor
under his charge to escape and forfeiture of $10 per month for
through neglect the same period.
Sentinel willfully suffering Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of
prisoner under his charge to all pay and allowances, and 1 year's
escape imprisonment.
Sentinel allowing a prisoner Two months' confinement at hard labor
under his charge to obtain and forfeiture of $10 per month for
liquor the same period.
Sentinel or member of guard Two months' confinement at hard labor
drinking liquor with prisoners and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period.
Disrespect or affront to Two month's confinement at hard labor
a sentinel and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
Resisting or disobeying sentinel Six months' confinement at hard labor
in lawful execution of his duty and forfeiture of $10 per month for
the same period; for noncommissioned
officer, reduction in addition
thereto.
Lewd or indecent exposure of Three month's confinement at hard
person labor and forfeiture of $10 per
month for the same period; for
noncommissioned officer, reduction
in addition thereto.
[Footnote 19: In addition to the stoppages "sufficient for repairing the
loss or damage," which the law requires the court-martial to adjudge.
The court's action under this requirement in the case of sale or loss
through neglect of clothing shall be limited to a confirmation of the
charge made against the offender on his clothing account.]
[Footnote 20: In specifications to charges of larceny or embezzlement
the value of the property shall be stated.]
III. (1) When a soldier shall be found guilty of an offense cognizable
when committed for the first time by an inferior court-martial, his
punishment therefor may exceed the prescribed limit by one-half if it
shall appear that during his current enlistment and within two years
preceding his trial he has been once convicted of one offense or more;
it may be doubled if he has been twice so convicted, and it may be
increased by one-half of the prescribed limit for every such previous
conviction: _Provided_, That upon proof of five or more previous
convictions the punishment may be that authorized for a fifth
conviction, or dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of all pay and
allowances. When found guilty of an offense cognizable only by a general
court-martial, and on proof of five or more previous convictions within
the two years, dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of all pay and
allowances may be added to any confinement at hard labor. And when
a noncommissioned officer shall be found guilty of an offense not
punishable by reduction, reduction may be added to the punishment if it
shall appear that he has been convicted of a military offense within one
year and during his current enlistment.
(2) After arriving at the findings a court-martial may be opened to
receive evidence of previous convictions. These convictions must be
proved by the records of previous trials or by duly authenticated orders
promulgating the same, showing the actual offenses of which the soldier
was convicted, except in the cases of convictions by summary court, when
a duly authenticated copy of the record of said court shall be deemed
sufficient proof. Charges forwarded to the authority ordering a general
court-martial or submitted to a summary garrison or regimental court
must be accompanied by the proper evidence of such previous convictions
as may have to be considered in determining upon a sentence. Paragraphs
1017 and 1018 of the Regulations are superseded by this order.
IV. This order prescribes the _maximum_ limit of punishment for the
offenses named, and this limit is intended for those cases where the
severest punishment should be awarded. In other cases the punishment
must be graded down according to the extenuating circumstances. Offenses
not herein provided for remain punishable as authorized by the Articles
of War and the custom of the service.
V. Summary courts are subject to the restrictions named in the
eighty-third article of war. Soldiers against whom charges may be
preferred for trial by summary court shall not be confined in the
guardhouse, but shall be placed in arrest in quarters before and during
trial and while awaiting sentence, unless in particular cases restraint
may be deemed necessary.
VI. The following substitutions for punishments named in Section II of
this order are authorized, at the discretion of the court:
Detention of pay to the extent of four times the amount of the
forfeiture; two days' confinement at hard labor for $1 of forfeited pay;
one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days'
confinement at hard labor or for $1 of forfeited pay: _Provided_, That a
noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject
to confinement: _And provided_, That solitary confinement shall not
exceed fourteen days at one time nor be repeated until fourteen days
have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year.
Wherever the limit herein prescribed for an offense or offenses may
be brought within the punishing power of inferior courts-martial,
as defined by the eighty-third article of war, by substitution of
punishment under the provisions of this section, the aforesaid courts
shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of such offense or offenses.