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That no appeal shall hereafter be allowed from judgments of the Court

of Claims in cases under the act of March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to

provide for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian

depredations," except where the adjudication involves the construction

or application of the Constitution or the validity or construction of

a treaty or the constitutionality of a law of the United States:

_Provided, however_, That upon such appeal it shall be competent for

the Supreme Court to require, by certiorari or otherwise, the whole

case to be certified for its review and determination upon the facts

as well as the law.

I am advised by the Attorney-General that under the Indian-depredations

act 8,000 cases, involving an aggregate of damages claimed of about

$30,000,000, have already been filed. A number of these cases involve as

much as $100,000 each, while a few involve as much as $500,000 each and

one something over $1,000,000. The damages which may be awarded in these

cases by the Court of Claims are to be paid out of the trust funds of

the Indians held by the United States, or, if there are no such funds,

out of the Treasury of the United States. The law referring these cases

to the Court of Claims has had no judicial interpretation, and many

novel and difficult questions are likely to arise. It is quite a

startling proposition, and a very novel one, I think, that there shall

be absolutely no opportunity for the review in an appellate court,

in cases involving such large amounts, of questions involving the

construction of the statute under which the court is proceeding, or

those various questions of law, many of them new, which necessarily

arise in such cases.

Neither the claimants, the Indians, nor the Government of the United

States should be absolutely denied opportunity to bring their exceptions

to review by some appellate tribunal. I would not suggest that an appeal

should be allowed in all cases. Some limitation as to amount would be

reasonable, and perhaps some discretion might be lodged in the Supreme

Court as to granting appeals. The limitations, however, imposed by the

section I have quoted are so severe and unreasonable, in my judgment,

that I have felt compelled to return the bill to the Senate with a view

to its reconsideration.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 29, 1892_.

_To the Senate_:

I return herewith without my approval the bill (S. 1958) entitled "An

act to submit to the Court of Private Land Claims, established by an act

of Congress approved March 3, 1891, the title of William McGarrahan to

the Rancho Panoche Grande, in the State of California, and for other

purposes."

This bill came to me on the 20th instant, at a time when very many other

bills were submitted for my consideration, and it has not been possible

for me to make such an examination of the history of Mr. McGarrahan's

claim as would be necessary to form an intelligent judgment as to its

merits and just extent. It is quite possible that he has been wronged

and that he has a claim for some reparation from the Government. I can

not, however, think that this bill proceeds upon a just basis. It

provides that Mr. McGarrahan shall file his claim as the assignee of

Gomez in the Court of Private Land Claims for the lands described in the

title, and that if the court establishes the grant to Gomez it shall be

confirmed to McGarrahan. No evidence that he is the assignee of Gomez

is, I think, required by the bill, which assumes that fact instead of

submitting it to the court. If the claim is established, it is provided

in substance that all lands part of said grant which have been conveyed

by the Government or are in the occupancy of actual settlers, or "upon

which there are any smelting or reduction works, or the lands claimed

in connection with such reduction or smelting works," shall be excepted

from the patent which the Secretary of the Interior is directed to issue

to McGarrahan. By this provision the title of the New Idria Mining

Company, which has long contested with McGarrahan the title to a large

part of this property, is established and that company is relieved from

any responsibility to account for the profits made in mining. On the

other hand, the United States waives all benefit of judicial proceedings

which have resulted in its favor and gives Mr. McGarrahan an opportunity

_de novo_ to try all such questions; and the decision, if in his favor,

is not only to restore to him all the lands yet undisposed of, but the

United States assumes to pay him the value of the lands appropriated by

others and of their use for all these years and to account to him for

all profits that have been made by the New Idria Mining Company or

anyone else in quicksilver or other mining.

This seems to me to be wholly inadmissible. The amount involved must be

enormously large, though at present incapable of any accurate estimate.

If the title of the New Idria Company has been established by final

decrees of court placing that title beyond question and that company

beyond any call to respond for use and profits, why should the

Government of the United States, waiving in its behalf these decrees,

which would protect it also, assume a responsibility to account for the

value of the lands and for their use and for the net value of minerals

extracted by that company or others? It will be noticed in the quotation

I have made from the act that this company is allowed to take all the

land it may claim, but at the expense of the United States, not of

Mr. McGarrahan.

The bill is so framed as to give full protection to the New Idria Mining

Company to the full extent of its largest claim, while throwing upon the

United States a responsibility which that company should bear if the

title of Mr. McGarrahan is established.

The United States provided a proper tribunal for the trial of claims

founded upon Mexican grants. This claim was there tried, and if fraud

affected the judgment it is not, I think, chargeable to the Government;

the contest was chiefly between rival claimants. In this state of the

case it would seem that if the United States consents to open the

litigation and to wipe out all judicial findings and decrees a less

exacting measure of damages than that proposed in the bill should be

agreed on.

It is not my purpose, as I have intimated, to express the opinion that

Mr. McGarrahan is entitled to no relief. It seems to me, however, clear

that he is not entitled to the relief given by this bill, and that it

does not adequately protect the interests of the United States.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 3, 1892_.

_To the Senate_:

I return herewith without my approval the bill (S. 1111) entitled "An

act to amend the act of Congress approved March 3, 1887, entitled 'An

act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the

United States.'"

If I may judge from the very limited discussion of this measure in

Congress, the sweeping effects of it upon the administration of the

public lands could hardly have been fully realized. From the beginning

of the Government the administration of the public lands and the issuing

of patents under the land laws have been an Executive function.

The jurisdiction of the courts as to contesting claims for patents has

awaited the action of the General Land Office. Land offices have been

established and maintained in all the districts where public lands were

found, located with reference to the convenience of the settlers, and

the proceedings have been informal and inexpensive. It is true that at

times, by an administration of the Land Office unfriendly toward the

settlers, unnecessary delays involving much hardship have intervened in

the issuing of patents, but such is not the case now. The work of the

Land Office within the last three years has been so efficient and so

friendly to the _bona fide_ settler that the large accumulation of cases

there has been swept away, and the office, as I am informed by the

Secretary of the Interior, is now engaged upon current business.

It seems to me that a transfer in whole or in part of this business to

the courts, some of whose dockets are already loaded with cases, can not

tend to expedition, while it is very manifest that, by reason of the

greater formality in the taking and presentation of evidence which would

be required in court and of the long distances which settlers would have

to traverse in order to attend court, the costs in such cases would be

enormously increased.

It is proposed by this bill to give what is called concurrent

jurisdiction to the district courts of the United States and to the

Court of Claims to hear and determine all claims for land patents under

any law or grant of the United States. Whether concurrent with each

other or with each other and the Land Office is not clear.

It is quite doubtful under the rulings of the Supreme Court whether the

courts now provided by law for the Territories are "district courts of

the United States" within the meaning of this bill. The effect of this

legislation would, if they were held not to be such, be that as to all

suits relating to lands in the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah,

and Oklahoma no other forum is provided than the Court of Claims at

Washington. In this state of the case a settler, or one who has taken

a mineral claim in any of these Territories, would be subject to be

brought to the city of Washington for the trial of his case.

In view of the fact that all recent legislation of Congress has been

in the direction of subdividing judicial districts and of bringing the

United States courts nearer to the litigants, I can only attribute to

oversight the passage of this bill, which in my opinion would burden the

homesteader and preemptor whose claim is contested, whether by another

individual or by any corporation, by compelling him to appear at

Washington and to conduct with the formality and expense incident to

court proceedings the defense of his title. But even in the case of

land contests arising in the States where district courts exist the

plaintiff, it will be observed, by this act is given the option to sue

in those courts or to bring his adversary to Washington to litigate

the claim. Why should he have this advantage, one that is not given so

far as I know in any other law fixing the forum of litigation between

individuals? Not only is this true, but the Court of Claims was

established for the trial of cases between individuals and corporations

on the one side and the United States on the other, and so far as I now

recall wholly for the trial of money claims.

There are no adequate provisions of law, if any at all, for conducting

suits between individuals contesting private rights. The court has one

bailiff and one messenger, no marshal, and is not provided, I think,

either with the machinery or with the appropriation to send its

processes to the most distant parts of the country. Yet it is apparent

that under this bill the real issue would frequently be between rival

claimants, and not between either and the United States. This court,

too, is already burdened with business since the reference to it of the

Indian depredation claims, the French spoliation claims, etc., and it

certainly can not be thought that a more speedy settlement of land

claims could be there obtained than is now given.

Again, the bill is so indefinite in its provisions that it can not be

told, I think, what function, if any, remains to be discharged by the

General Land Office. It was said in answer to an interrogatory when the

bill was under consideration that it did not affect claims pending in

the Land Office; and yet it seems to me that its effect is to allow any

contestant in the Land Office at any stage of the proceedings there to

transfer the whole controversy to the courts. He may take his chances of

success in the Land Office, and if at any time he becomes apprehensive

of an adverse decision he may begin _de novo_ in the courts.

If it was intended to preserve the jurisdiction of the Land Office and

to hold cases there until a judgment had been reached, the bill should

have so provided, for it is capable of, and indeed seems to me compels,

the construction that either party may forsake the Land Office at any

stage of a contest. I am quite inclined to believe that if provision

were made, as in section 1063 of the Revised Statutes, relating to

claims in other departments, for the transfer to a proper court, under

proper regulations, of certain contest cases involving questions

affecting large classes of claims, it would be a relief to the Land

Office and would tend to a more speedy adjustment of land titles in such

cases, a result which would be in the interest of all our people.

Nothing is more disadvantageous to a community, its progress and peace,

than unsettled land titles. This bill, however, as I have said, is so

radical and seems to me to be so indefinite in its provisions that

I can not give it my approval.

BENJ. HARRISON.

PROCLAMATIONS.

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 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 February 1, 1892,

into all the established ports of entry of Salvador the articles or

merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be

the product or manufacture of the United States:

SCHEDULE OF 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, vermicelli, and tallarin.

7. Coal, mineral.

8. Roman cement.

9. Hydraulic lime.

10. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for melting.

11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones,

and building purposes.

12. Tar, vegetable and mineral.

13. Guano and other fertilizers, natural or artificial.

14. Plows and all other agricultural tools and implements.

15. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing machines, and separate or

extra parts for the same.

16. Materials of all kinds for the construction and equipment of

railroads.

17. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of

telegraphic and telephonic lines.

18. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas.

19. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wharves.

20. Apparatus for distilling liquors.

21. Wood of all kinds for building, in trunks or pieces, beams,

rafters, planks, boards, shingles, or flooring.

22. Wooden staves, heads, and hoops, and barrels and boxes for packing,

mounted or in pieces.

23. Houses of wood or iron, complete or in parts.

24. Wagons, carts, and carriages of all kinds.

25. Barrels, casks, and tanks of iron for water.

26. Tubes of iron and all other accessories necessary for water supply.

27. Wire, barbed, and staples for fences.

28. Plates of iron for building purposes.

29. Mineral ores.

30. Kettles of iron for making salt.

31. Kettles of iron for making sugar.

32. Molds for making sugar.

33. Guys for mining purposes.

34. Furnaces and instruments for assaying metals.

35. Scientific instruments.

36. Models of machinery and buildings.

37. Boats, lighters, tackle, anchors, chains, girtlines, sails, and all

other articles for vessels, to be used in the ports, lakes, and

rivers of the Republic.

38. Printing materials, including presses, type, ink, and all other

accessories.

39. Printed books, pamphlets, and newspapers, bound or unbound, maps,

photographs, printed music, and paper for music.

40. Paper for printing newspapers.

41. Quicksilver.

42. Loadstones.

43. Hops.

44. Sulphate of quinine.

45. Gold and silver in bars, dust, or coin.

46. Samples of merchandise the duties on which do not exceed $1.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles

named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if

they are usual and proper for the purpose.

And that the Government of Salvador has further stipulated 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 schedule

are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall

impose no additional charges on the importer nor undue restrictions on

the articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance

to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Salvador at

Washington that this action of the Government of Salvador in granting

freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States

of America on their importation into Salvador and in stipulating for a

more complete reciprocity arrangement 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 Salvador 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 December, 1891, and of

the Independence of the United States of America 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 it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress 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 reservation and the limits thereof.

And whereas the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico 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 Territory of New Mexico and particularly described as

follows, to wit:

Commencing at the standard corner to township seventeen (17) north,

ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) east (New Mexico principal base

and meridian) on the fourth (4th) standard parallel north; thence

northerly along the range line between ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen

(14) east to the closing corner between ranges thirteen (13) and

fourteen (14) east on the fifth (5th) standard parallel north; thence

along said fifth (5th) standard parallel to the southeast corner of

township twenty-one (21) north, range thirteen (13) east; thence north

six (6) miles; thence west twelve (12) miles; thence due south to the

fifth (5th) standard parallel; thence westerly on said fifth (5th)

standard parallel to a point due north of the northwest corner of

township seventeen (17) north, range eleven (11) east; thence south to

the fourth (4th) standard parallel; thence westerly on said fourth (4th)

standard parallel north seven and sixty-two one-hundredths (7.62) chains

to the northwest corner of township sixteen (16) north, range eleven

(11) east; thence southerly on the range line between townships sixteen

(16) north, ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) east, three (3) miles and

three and forty-three hundredths (3.43) chains to the corner to sections

thirteen (13), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), and twenty-four (24) on

said range line; thence easterly along the section lines to the range

line between ranges eleven (11) and twelve (12) east; thence northerly

three (3) miles and three (3) chains to the fourth (4th) standard

parallel north; thence easterly on said fourth (4th) standard parallel

eight (8) and fifty-hundredths (8.50) chains to the standard corner to

township seventeen (17) north, ranges eleven (11) and twelve (12) east;

thence northerly on the range line to the southwest corner of township

eighteen (18) north, range twelve (12) east; thence easterly on the

township line six (6) miles one and six-hundredths (1.06) chains to the

southeast corner of township eighteen (18) north, range twelve (12)

east; thence south six (6) miles to the fourth (4th) standard parallel

north; thence east along said fourth (4th) standard parallel 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 Spanish or

Mexican grant or in any legal entry or covered by any 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 rules

and regulations not in conflict therewith.

_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any

particular tract of land unless the entry man 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 11th day of January, A.D. 1892, 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, 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 attention of the Government of

Great Britain was called to 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 Great

Britain at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the

fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the Government

of Great Britain has by due legal enactment authorized the admission,

from and after February 1, 1892, of the articles in merchandise named

in the following schedules, on the terms stated therein, into the

British colonies of Trinidad (which includes Tobago), Barbados, the

Leeward Islands (consisting of the islands of Antigua, Montserrat, St.

Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, with their respective dependencies, and

the Virgin Islands), the Windward Islands (consisting of St. Lucia,

St. Vincent, and their dependencies, but exclusive of Grenada and its

dependencies), and into the colony of British Guiana on and after

April 1, 1892:

Table No. 1.--Applicable to British Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago,

Barbados, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands Excepting

the Island of Grenada.

SCHEDULE A.

Articles to be admitted free of all customs duty and any other national,

colonial, or municipal charges:

1. Animals, alive, to include only asses, sheep, goats, hogs, and

poultry, and horses for breeding.

2. Beef, including tongues, smoked and dried.

3. Beef and pork preserved in cans.

4. Belting for machinery, of leather, canvas, or india rubber.

5. Boats and lighters.

6. Books,[27] bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed

matter in all languages.

7. Bones and horns.

8. Bottles of glass or stone ware.

9. Bran, middlings, and shorts.

10. Bridges of iron or wood, or of both combined,

11. Brooms, brushes, and whisks of broom straw.

12. Candles, tallow.

13. Carts, wagons, cars, and barrows, with or without springs, for

ordinary roads and agricultural use, not including vehicles of

pleasure.

14. Clocks, mantel or wall.

15. Copper, bronze, zinc, and lead articles, plain and nickel plated,

for industrial and domestic uses and for building.

16. Cotton seed and its products.

17. Crucibles and melting pots of all kinds.

18. Eggs.

19. Fertilizers of all kinds, natural and artificial.

20. Fish, fresh or on ice, and salmon and oysters in cans.

21. Fishing apparatus of all kinds.

22. Fruits and vegetables, fresh and dried, when not canned, tinned,

or bottled.

23. Gas fixtures and pipes.

24. Gold and silver coin of the United States, and bullion.

25. Hay and straw for forage.

26. Houses of wood, complete.

27. Ice.

28. India-rubber and gutta-percha goods, including waterproof clothing

made wholly or in part thereof.

29. Implements, utensils, and tools for agriculture, exclusive of

cutlasses and forks.

30. Lamps and lanterns.

31. Lime of all kinds.

32. Locomotives, railway rolling stock, rails, railway ties, and all

materials and appliances for railways and tramways.

33. Marble or alabaster, in the rough or squared, worked or carved,

for building purposes or monuments.

34. Medicinal extracts and preparations of all kinds, including

proprietary or patent medicines, but exclusive of quinine or

preparations of quinine, opium, gange, and bhang.

35. Paper of all kinds for printing.

36. Paper of wood or straw for wrapping and packing, including surface

coated or glazed.

37. Photographic apparatus and chemicals.

38. Printers' ink, all colors.

39. Printing presses, types, rules, spaces, and all accessories for

printing.

40. Quicksilver.

41. Resin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

42. Salt.

43. Sewing machines and all parts and accessories thereof.

44. Shipbuilding materials and accessories of all kinds, when used in

the construction, equipment, or repair of vessels or boats of any

kind, except rope and cordage of all kinds, including wire rope.

45. Starch of Indian corn or maize.

46. Steam and power engines, and machines, machinery, and apparatus,

whether stationary or portable, worked by power or by hand, for

agriculture, irrigation, mining, the arts and industries of all

kinds, and all necessary parts and appliances for the erection

or repair thereof or the communication of motive power thereto.

47. Steam boilers and steam pipes.

48. Sulphur.

49. Tan bark of all kinds, whole or ground.

50. Telegraph wire, telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical apparatus

and appliances of all kinds for communication or illumination.

51. Trees, plants, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds, for

propagation or cultivation.

52. Varnish, not containing spirits.

53. Wall papers.

54. Watches when not cased in gold or silver, and watch movements

uncased.

55. Water pipes of all classes, materials, and dimensions.

56. Wire for fences, the hooks, staples, nails, and the like

appliances for fastening the same.

57. Yeast cake and baking powders.

58. Zinc, tin, and lead, in sheets, asbestus, and tar paper,

for roofing.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles

named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if

they are usual and proper for the purpose.

SCHEDULE B.

Articles to be admitted at 50 per cent reduction of the duty designated

in the respective customs tariff now in force in each of said colonies:

1. Bacon and bacon hams.

2. Boots and shoes made wholly or in part of leather.

3. Bread and biscuit.

4. Cheese.

5. Lard and its compounds.

6. Mules.

7. Oleomargarine.

8. Shooks and staves.

SCHEDULE C.

Articles to be admitted at 25 per cent reduction of the duty designated

in the respective customs tariff now in force in each of said colonies:

1. Beef, salted or pickled.

2. Corn or maize.

3. Corn meal.

4. Flour of wheat.

5. Lumber of pitch pine, in rough or prepared for buildings.

6. Petroleum and its products, crude or refined.

7. Pork, salted or pickled.

8. Wheat.

It is understood that No. 4 of this schedule shall not apply to the

colony of Trinidad, but it is stipulated that the duty on flour in

said colony shall not exceed 75 cents per barrel.

And that the Government of Great Britain has by due legal enactment

authorized the admission, from and after February 1, 1892, of the

articles or merchandise named in the following schedules, on the terms

stated therein, into the British colony of Jamaica and its dependencies:

Table No. 2.--Applicable to the Colony of Jamaica and its Dependencies.

SCHEDULE A.

Articles to be admitted free of all customs duty and any other

national, colonial, or municipal charges:

1. Animals, alive, and poultry.

2. Beef, including tongues, smoked and dried.

3. Beef and pork preserved in cans.

4. Belting for machinery, of leather, canvas, or india rubber.

5. Boats and lighters.

6. Books,[28] bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed

matter in all languages.

7. Bones and horns.

8. Bottles of glass or stone ware.

9. Bran, middlings, and shorts.

10. Bridges of iron or wood, or of both combined.

11. Brooms, brushes, and whisks or broom straw.

12. Candles, tallow.

13. Carts, wagons, cars, and barrows, with or without springs, for

ordinary roads and agricultural use, not including vehicles

of pleasure.

14. Coal and coke.

15. Clocks, mantel or wall.

16. Cotton seed and its products, to include meal, meal cake, oil,

and cottolene.

17. Crucibles and melting pots of all kinds.

18. Drawings, paintings, engravings, lithographs, and photographs

19. Eggs.

20. Fertilizers of all kinds, natural and artificial.

21. Fish, fresh or on ice, and oysters in cans.

22. Fishing apparatus of all kinds.

23. Fruits and vegetables, fresh and dried, when not canned, tinned,

or bottled.

24. Gas fixtures and pipes.

25. Gold and silver coin of the United States, and bullion.

26. Hay and straw for forage.

27. Houses of wood, complete.

28. Ice.

29. India-rubber and gutta-percha goods, including waterproof clothing

made wholly or in part thereof.

30. Implements, utensils, and tools for agriculture, exclusive of

cutlasses and forks.

31. Iron, galvanized.

32. Iron for roofing.

33. Lamps and lanterns, not exceeding 10 shillings each in value.

34. Lime of all kinds.

35. Locomotives, railway rolling stock, rails, railway ties, and all

materials and appliances for railways and tramways.

36. Marble or alabaster, in the rough or squared, worked or carved,

for building purposes or monuments.

37. Paper of all kinds for printing.

38. Paper of wood or straw for wrapping and packing, including surface

coated or glazed.

39. Photographic apparatus and chemicals.

40. Printers' ink, all colors.

41. Printing presses, types, rules, spaces, and all accessories for

printing.

42. Proprietary or patent medicines, recommended by their proprietors as

calculated to cure disease or alleviate pain in the human subject.

43. Quicksilver.

44. Resin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

45. Sewing machines and all parts and accessories thereof.

46. Shipbuilding materials and accessories of all kinds, when used in

the construction, equipment, or repair of vessels or boats of any

kind, except rope and cordage of all kinds, including wire rope,

and subject to specific regulations to avoid abuse in the

importation.

47. Shocks and staves.

48. Starch of Indian corn or maize.

49. Steam and power engines, and machines, machinery, and apparatus,

whether stationary or portable, worked by power or by hand, for

agriculture, irrigation, mining, the arts and industries of all

kinds, and all necessary parts and appliances for the erection

or repair thereof or the communication of motive power thereto.

50. Steam boilers and steam pipes.

51. Sugar, refined.

52. Sulphur.

53. Tallow and animal greases.

54. Tan bark of all kinds, whole or ground.

55. Telegraph wire, telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical apparatus

and appliances of all kinds for communication or illumination.

56. Trees, plants, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds for

propagation or cultivation.

57. Varnish, not containing spirits.

58. Wall papers.

59. Watches when not cased in gold or silver, and watch movements

uncased.

60. Water pipes of all classes, materials, and dimensions.

61. Wire for fences, with the hooks, staples, nails, and the like

appliances for fastening the same.

62. Yeast cake and baking powders.

63. Zinc, tin, and lead, in sheets, asbestus, and tar paper, for

roofing.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles

named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if

they are usual and proper for the purpose.

SCHEDULE B.

Articles to be admitted at 50 per cent reduction of the duty designated

in the customs tariff now in force:

1. Bacon and bacon hams.

2. Bread and biscuit.

3. Butter.

4. Cheese.

5. Lard and its compounds.

Lumber of pitch pine, in rough or prepared for buildings, to be reduced

to 9 shillings per 1,000 feet.

SCHEDULE C.

Articles to be admitted at 25 per cent reduction of the duty designated

in the customs tariff now in force:

1. Beef, salted or pickled.

2. Corn and maize.

3. Corn meal.

4. Oats.

5. Petroleum and its products, crude or refined.

6. Pork, salted or pickled.

7. Wheat.

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given the

assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of

Great Britain at Washington that this action of the Government of Great

Britain in granting remissions and alterations of duties in the British

colonies above mentioned 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 aforesaid British colonies 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 February, 1892, and of

the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and

sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE,

_Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 27: The importation of books is subject to the provisions of

[Footnote 28: The importation of books is subject to the provisions of

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 attention of the Government of the

German Empire was called to 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 chargé d'affaires of the German Empire at Washington has

communicated to the special plenipotentiary of the United States the

fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the German

Imperial Government has by due legal enactment authorized the admission,

from and after February 1, 1892, into the German Empire of the articles

or merchandise the product of the United States of America named in the

following schedule, on the terms stated therein:

_Schedules of articles to be admitted into Germany_.

Articles. Rate of duty per

100 kilograms.

_Marks_.

1. Bran; malted germs Free.

2. Flax, raw, dried, broken, or hatcheled; also refuse portions Free.

3. Wheat 3.50

4. Rye 3.50

5. Oats 2.80

6. Buckwheat 2.00

7. Pulse 1.50

8. Other kinds of grain not specially mentioned 1.00

9. Barley 2.00

10. Rape seed, turnip seed, poppy, sesame, peanuts, and other

oleaginous products not specially mentioned 2.00

11. Maize (Indian corn) 1.60

12. Malt (malted barley) 3.60

13. Anise, coriander, fennel, and caraway seed 3.00

14. Agricultural productions not otherwise designated Free.

15. Horsehair, raw, hatcheled, boiled, dyed, also laid in

the form of tresses and spun; bristles; raw bed feathers Free.

16. Bed feathers, cleaned and prepared Free.

17. Hides and skins, raw (green, salted, limed, dried),

and stripped of the hair for the manufacture of leather Free.

18. Charcoal Free.

19. Bark of wood and tan bark Free.

20. Lumber and timber:

(a) Raw or merely roughhewn with ax or saw, with or without

bark; oaken barrel staves 0.20

(b) Marked in the direction of the longitudinal axis, or

prepared or cut otherwise than by roughhewing; barrel

staves not included under (a); unpeeled osiers and

hoops; hubs, fellies, and spokes 0.30

unplaned boards; sawed cantle woods and other articles

sawn or hewn 0.80

21. Wood in cut veneering; unglued, unstained parts of floors 5.00

22. Hops; also hop meal[29] 14.00

23. Butter; also artificial butter 17.00

24. Meat, slaughtered, fresh, with the exception of pork 15.00

25. Pork, slaughtered, fresh, and dressed meat, with the

exception of bacon, fresh or prepared 17.00

26. Game of all kinds (not alive) 20.00

27. Cheese, except Strecchino, Gorgonzola, and Parmesan 20.00

28. Fruit, seeds, berries, leaves, flowers, mushrooms,

vegetables, dried, baked, pulverized, only boiled down

or salted--all these products so far as they are not

included under other numbers of the tariff; juices of

fruits, berries, and turnips, preserved without sugar,

to be eaten; dry nuts 4.00

39. Mill products of grain and pulse, to wit, ground or

shelled grains, peeled barley, groats, grits, flour,

common cakes (bakers' products) 7.30

30. Residue, solid, from the manufacture of fat oils,

also ground Free.

31. Goose grease and other greasy fats, such as oleomargarine,

sperfett (a mixture of stearic fats with oil), beef marrow 10.00

32. Live animals and animal products not mentioned elsewhere;

also beehives with live bees Free.

33. Horses (remarks) each 20.00

(a) Horses up to 2 years old do 10.00

(b) Colts following their dams Free.

34. Bulls and cows 9.00

35. Oxen 25.50

36. Calves less than 6 weeks old 3.00

37. Hogs 5.00

38. Pigs weighing less than 10 kilograms 1.00

39. Sheep 1.00

40. Lambs 0.50

41. Wool, including animal hair not mentioned elsewhere,

as well as stuffs made thereof:

(a) Wool, raw, dyed, ground; also hair, raw, hatcheled,

boiled, dyed; also curled Free.

[Footnote 29: Gross.]

And whereas the special plenipotentiary of the United States has, by my

direction, given assurance to the chargé d'affaires of the German Empire

at Washington that this action of the Government of the German Empire

in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the

United States of America on their importation into Germany 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 German Empire 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 February, 1892, and of

the Independence of the United States of America 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 it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress 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 the limits thereof.

And whereas the public lands in the State of Colorado within the limits

hereafter 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:

Commencing at the northeast corner of section four (4), township eleven

(11) north, range sixty-seven (67) west of the sixth (6th) principal

meridian; thence proceeding westerly along the township line between

townships ten (10) and eleven (11) south to the northwest corner of

section six (6), township eleven (11) south, range sixty-eight (68)

west; thence southerly along the range line between ranges sixty-eight

(68) and sixty-nine (69) west to the southwest corner of section

eighteen (18), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-eight (68)

west; thence westerly along the section line to the northwest corner of

section nineteen (19), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-nine

(69) west; thence southerly along the range line between ranges

sixty-nine (69) and seventy (70) west to the southwest corner of section

thirty-one (31), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-nine (69)

west; thence east along the township line between townships thirteen

(13) and fourteen (14) south to the half-section corner on said township

line of section two (2), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-nine

(69) west; thence southerly through the middle of sections two (2),

eleven (11), and fourteen (14) to a point in the middle of the north

line of section twenty-three (23) of said township and range; thence

easterly along said northern section line to the northeast corner of

said section; thence southerly between sections twenty-three (23) and

twenty-four (24) to the middle of the east line of section twenty-three

(23); thence easterly through the middle of section twenty-four (24) to

the middle of the east line of said section twenty-four (24), township

fourteen (14) south, range sixty-nine (69) west; thence southerly along

the range line between ranges sixty-eight (68) and sixty-nine (69) west

to the southwest corner of section thirty-one (31), township fifteen

(15) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence east along the township

line between townships fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) south to the

southeast corner of section thirty-four (34), township fifteen (15)

south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence northerly along the section

line to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section

twenty-two (22), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-seven (67)

west; thence westerly to the northwest corner of the southeast quarter

of section twenty-one (21) of said last-named township and range; thence

southerly to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section

twenty-eight (28) of said township and range; thence westerly along

the section line to the corner common to sections twenty-five (25),

thirty-one (31), and thirty-six (36) of said township and range; thence

northerly on the section line to the corner common to sections one (1),

six (6), and twelve (12) of said township and range; thence easterly

along the section line to the corner common to sections five (5), six

(6), and eight (8); thence southerly along the section line to the

southwest corner of section eight (8) of said township and range; thence

easterly along the section line to the corner common to sections ten

(10), eleven (11), and fourteen (14) of said township and range; thence

northerly along the section line to the northeast corner of section

three (3); thence westerly to the northwest corner of section three (3)

of said township and range; thence northerly along the section line to

the corner common to sections sixteen (16), twenty-one (21), twenty-two

(22), and fifteen (15), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-seven

(67) west; thence westerly along the section line to the northwest

corner of section nineteen (19) of said township and range; thence

northerly along the range line between ranges sixty-seven (67) and

sixty-eight (68) to the northeast corner of section one (1), township

fourteen (14) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence easterly along

the township line between townships thirteen (13) and fourteen (14)

south to the southeast corner of section thirty-three (33) of township

thirteen (13) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence northerly

along the section line to the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all surveyed

land which may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal

entry or covered by any lawful filing duly made in the proper United

States land office, all unsurveyed lands on which valid settlement has

been made under any law of the United States, and all mining Claims duly

located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules

and regulations not in conflict therewith.

_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any

particular tract of land unless the entry man, settler, or claimant

continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing,

settlement, 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 11th day of February, A.D. 1892,

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.

The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby

published for the information of all concerned:

Section 1956, Revised Statutes, chapter 3, Title XXIII, enacts that--

No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or

other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory or in

the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall for each

offense be fined not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned

not more than six months, or both; and all vessels, their tackle,

apparel, furniture, and cargo, found engaged in violation of this

section shall be forfeited; but the Secretary of the Treasury shall

have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or

other fur-bearing animal, except fur seals, under such regulations as

he may prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to prevent

the killing of any fur seal and to provide for the execution of the

provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor

shall he grant any special privileges under this section.

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 at

least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United

States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against

entering said 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 15th day of February, 1892, 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, 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 Nicaragua 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

Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua will by due legal enactment admit

free of all duty, from and after April 15, 1892, into all the ports of

entry of Nicaragua the articles or merchandise named in the following

schedule, provided that the same be the product of the United States:

SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES WHICH THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA WILL ADMIT FREE OF

ALL KIND OF DUTY.

1. Animals, live.

2. Barley, Indian corn, wheat, oats, rye, and rice.

3. Seeds of all kinds for agriculture and horticulture.

4. Live plants of all kinds.

5. Corn meal.

6. Starch.

7. Beans, potatoes, and all other vegetables, fresh or dried.

8. Fruits, fresh or dried.

9. Hay, bran, and straw for forage.

10. Cotton-seed oil and all other products of said seed.

11. Tar, resin, and turpentine.

12. Asphalt, crude or manufactured in blocks.

13. Quicksilver for mining purposes.

14. Coal, mineral or animal.

15. Fertilizers for land.

16. Lime and cement.

17. Wood and lumber, in the rough or prepared for building purposes.

18. Houses of wood or iron.

19. Marble, in the rough or dressed, for fountains, gravestones, and

building purposes.

20. Tools and implements for agricultural and horticultural purposes.

21. Wagons, carts, and handcarts.

22. Iron and steel, in rails for railroads and other similar uses, and

structural iron and steel for bridges and building purposes.

23. Wire, for fences, with or without barbs, clamps, posts, clips, and

other accessories of wire, not less than 3 lines in diameter.

24. Machinery of all kinds for agricultural purposes, arts, and trades,

and parts of such machinery.

25. Motors of steam or animal power.

26. Forgers, water pumps of metal, pump hose, sledge hammers, drills for

mining purposes, iron piping with its keys and faucets, crucibles

for melting metals, iron water tanks, and lightning rods.

27. Roofs of galvanized iron, gutters, ridging, clamps, and screws for

the same.

28. Printing materials.

29. Books, pamphlets, and other printed matter, and ruled paper for

printed music, printing paper in sheets not less than 29 by 20

inches.

30. Geographical maps or charts and celestial and terrestrial spheres

or globes.

31. Surgical and mathematical instruments.

32. Stones and fire bricks for smelting furnaces.

33. Vessels and boats of all kinds, fitted together or in parts.

34. Gold and silver in bullion, bars, or coin.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles

named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if

they are usual and proper for the purpose.

And that the Government of Nicaragua has further stipulated 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

schedule are the product of the United States of America shall impose

no undue restrictions on the importer nor additional charges on the

articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to

the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Nicaragua at

Washington that this action of the Government of Nicaragua in granting

freedom of duties to the products of the United States of America on

their importation into Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua 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 12th day of March, 1892, 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 in section 3 of an act passed by the Congress of the United

States entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on

imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890, it was

provided as follows:

That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing

the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the 1st

day of January, 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be

satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting

sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of

such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural

or other products of the United States which, in view of the free

introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the

United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable,

he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by

proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the

free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the

production of such country for such time as he shall deem just; and in

such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected,

and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or

exported from such designated country--

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact

to be that the Government of Colombia does impose duties or other

exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States

which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses,

coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the

provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and

unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of

America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said

act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare

and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free

introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production

of Colombia shall be suspended from and after this 15th day of March,

1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and

exactions are removed by Colombia and public notice of that fact given

by the President of the United States; and I do hereby proclaim that on

and after this 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected,

and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or

exported from Colombia during such suspension duties as provided by said

act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on

their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms,

sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada,

concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not

above 75°, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional

degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test

two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified

by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard of color,

1-3/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,

1-5/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard of color, 2 cents per pound.

Molasses testing above 56°, 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as

molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled; Angora-goat

skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses' skins, raw or

unmanufactured, and skins, except sheepskins, with the wool on, 1-1/2

cents per pound.

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 March, 1892, and of the