the same
be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly
from the ports of said States:

SCHEDULE A.

Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican Republic:

1. Animals, live.

2. Meats of all kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked.

3. Corn or maize, corn meal, and starch.

4. Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.

5. Hay, bran, and straw for forage.

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

7. Cotton-seed oil and meal cake of same.

8. Tallow, in cake or melted, and oil for machinery, subject to
examination and proof respecting the use of said oil.

9. Resin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

10. Manures, natural and artificial.

11. Coal, mineral.

12. Mineral waters, natural and artificial.

13. Ice.

14. Machines, including steam engines and those of all other kinds,
and parts of the same, implements and tools for agricultural,
mining, manufacturing, industrial, and scientific purposes,
including carts, wagons, handcarts, and wheelbarrows, and parts
of the same.

15. Material for the construction and equipment of railways.

16. Iron, cast and wrought, and steel, in pigs, bars, rods, plates,
beams, rafters, and other similar articles for the construction
of buildings, and in wire, nails, screws, and pipes.

17. Zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets,
asbestus, tar paper, tiles, slate, and other material for roofing.

18. Copper in bars, plates, nails, and screws.

19. Copper and lead pipe.

20. Bricks, fire bricks, cement, lime, artificial stone, paving tiles,
marble and other stones in rough, dressed or polished, and other
earthy materials used in building.

21. Windmills.

22. Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks, staples, nails, and
similar articles used in the construction of fences.

23. Telegraph wire and telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical
apparatus of all kinds for communication and illumination.

24. Wood and lumber of all kinds for building, in logs or pieces,
beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, flooring, joists,
wooden houses, mounted or unmounted, and accessory parts of
buildings.

25. Cooperage of all kinds, including staves, headings, and hoops,
barrels and boxes, mou