ion of said act), upon
vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe, or from any of the above
named free ports of the Dutch East Indies.

_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 foreign country or their cargoes, or of the fees, dues,
or duties imposed on the vessels of the country in which are the ports
mentioned in this proclamation, or the cargoes of such vessels.

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 Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe and the said free ports of the
Dutch East Indies, 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 22d day of April, A.D. 1887, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eleventh.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of
Spain that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed
or levied in the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and
all belonging to the Crown of Spain, upon vessels wholly belonging to
citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or
merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any
foreign country; and

Whereas notification of such abolition of discriminating duties of
tonnage and imposts as aforesaid has been given to me by a memorandum
of agreement signed this day at the city of Washington between the
Secretary of State of the United States and the envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain
accredited to the Government of the United States of America:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested