were not
landed, but were destined for some foreign port or place.

It was further provided that this regulation should not be construed to
authorize lower tonnage taxes or other navigation charges on American
vessels entering the ports of Porto Rico from the United States than
were paid by foreign vessels from foreign countries, nor to authorize
any lower customs charges or tariff charges on the cargoes of American
vessels entering from the United States than were paid on the cargoes of
foreign vessels entering from foreign ports.

The regulations as to entering and clearing vessels and the penalties
for the violation were the same as those fixed for Cuban ports in the
possession of the United States. The tonnage dues were reduced, as in
Cuba, to twenty cents per ton on vessels entering from ports other than
Porto Rican ports in the possession of the United States, and two cents
a ton on vessels from other ports in Porto Rico. The landing charge of
$1 per ton was abolished, and the special tax of fifty cents on each ton
of merchandise landed at San Juan and Mayaguez for harbor improvement
was continued.

As in Cuba, the Spanish minimum tariff was to be collected. On most
articles, however, this was much higher than the minimum tariff which
was imposed by Spain in Cuba. The differential in Porto Rico imposed on
goods imported from countries other than Spain was much smaller than in
Cuba, so that under Spanish rule there was not a wide difference between
duties on goods from countries other than Spain imported into the two
islands. Under the operation of the President's orders imposing the
minimum tariffs in both islands the effect would be to tax most articles
much higher in Porto Rico than in Cuba. As in Cuba, a tariff was imposed
on tobacco, manufactured tobacco, cigars and cigarettes equivalent to
the internal revenue taxes imposed in the United States.

Richard Harding Davis says that there will be no such complications in
Porto Rico as those which exist in Cuba for the United States troops
there were not allies. They were men who came, were seen and conquered.
The revolutionary leaders had no share or credit in their triumphal
progress.

Now to examine into what Porto Rico offers for American enterprise and
capital.

In the first place, United States Consul Hanna has been flooded with
letters from fortune hunters. He strongly advised all of them to remain
at home until the Americans were in complete control.