granting exemption of
duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America
on their importation into the Dominican Republic is accepted as a due
reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said
act:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the
United States of America, have caused the above-stated modifications of
the tariff laws of the Dominican Republic to be made public for the
information of the citizens of the United States of America.
In testimony 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 1st day of August, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is provided by section 24 of an act approved March 3, 1891,
entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other
purposes"--
That the President of the United States may from time to time set
apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing
forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with
timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public
reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare
the establishment of such reservations and limits thereof.
And whereas the lands hereinafter described are public and forest
bearing, and on the 30th of March last I issued a proclamation[17]
intended to reserve the same as authorized in said act, but as some
question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimed being sufficiently
definite to cover the forests intended to be reserved:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said
reservation more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said
act, do hereby issue this my second proclamation and hereby set apart,
reserve, and establish as a public reservation all that tract of land
situate in the State of Wyoming embraced within the following boundary:
Beginning at a point on the parallel of 44 deg. 50' north latitude where
said parallel is intersected by the east boundary of the Yellowstone
National Park; thence due ea
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