d that a part of it was leased by the
Government for that purpose for the term of five years. Upon the faith
of such lease the premises thus rented were fitted up and furnished by
the owner of the building in a manner especially adapted to postal uses,
and an account of such fitting up and furnishing is before me, showing
the expense of the same to have been more than $2,500.

In view of such new and recent arrangements made by the Government for
the transaction of its postal business at this place, it seems that the
proposed expenditure for the erection of a building for that purpose is
hardly necessary or justifiable.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

PROCLAMATIONS.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government
of the Netherlands that no light-house and light dues, tonnage dues,
or beacon and buoy dues are imposed in the ports of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands; that no other equivalent tax of any kind is imposed upon
vessels in said ports, under whatever flag they may sail; that vessels
belonging to the United States of America and their cargoes are not
required in the Netherlands to pay any fee or due of any kind or nature,
or any import due higher or other than is payable by vessels of the
Netherlands or their cargoes; that no export duties are imposed in the
Netherlands; and that in the free ports of the Dutch East Indies, to
wit, Riouw (in the island of Riouw), Pabean, Sangrit, Loloan, and
Tamboekoes (in the island of Bali), Koepang (in the island of Timor),
Makassar, Menado, Kema, and Gorontalo (in the island of Celebes),
Amboina, Saparoa, Banda, Ternate, and Kajeli (in the Moluccas), Olehleh
and Bengkalis (in the island of Sumatra), vessels are subjected to no
fiscal tax, and no import or export duties are there levied:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, 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 duty of 6 cents per ton, not to exceed 30 cents per
ton per annum (which is imposed by said sect