ary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas section 17 of the act of August 28, 1894, entitled "An act to
reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other
purposes," prohibits "the importation of neat cattle and the hides of
neat cattle from any foreign country into the United States;" and

Whereas it is provided by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895,
entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896"--

That whenever the Secretary of Agriculture shall certify to the
President of the United States what countries or parts of countries are
free from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals, and
that neat cattle and hides can be imported from such countries without
danger to the domestic animals of the United States, the President of
the United States may suspend the prohibition of the importation of
neat cattle and hides in the manner provided by law.

And whereas the Secretary of Agriculture has now certified to me that
the countries of Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and the countries of North, Central, and South America,
including Mexico, are so far free from contagious or infectious diseases
of domestic animals that neat cattle may be imported from those
countries into the United States, under the sanitary regulations
prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, without danger to the
domestic animals of the United States, and that so far as the countries
above named, as well as all other countries from which hides are
imported into the United States, are concerned, they are so far free
from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals that hides of
neat cattle can be imported from all parts of the world, under proper
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, without danger
to the domestic animals of the United States: Now, therefore, I, Grover
Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby suspend the
prohibition of the importation of neat cattle from the countries of
Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and the countries of North, Central, and South America, including
Mexico, and of the hides of neat cattle from all parts of the world; but
all importations of neat cattle shall be made under the sanitary
regulations prescribed by the Secretary