OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October
1, 1890, entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on
imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United
States of America communicated to the Government of Salvador the action
of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure
reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3
to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of
America; and

Whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Salvador
at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that,
in reciprocity for the admission into the United States of America free
of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said act, the
Government of Salvador will by due legal enactment, as a provisional
measure and until a more complete arrangement may be negotiated and put
in operation, admit free of all duty, from and after February 1, 1892,
into all the established ports of entry of Salvador the articles or
merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be
the product or manufacture of the United States:

SCHEDULE OF PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES WHICH THE REPUBLIC OF SALVADOR
WILL ADMIT FREE OF ALL CUSTOMS, MUNICIPAL, AND ANY OTHER KIND OF DUTY.

1. Animals for breeding purposes.

2. Corn, rice, barley, and rye.

3. Beans.

4. Hay and straw for forage.

5. Fruits, fresh.

6. Preparations of flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened,
macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin.

7. Coal, mineral.

8. Roman cement.

9. Hydraulic lime.

10. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for melting.

11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones,
and building purposes.

12. Tar, vegetable and mineral.

13. Guano and other fertilizers, natural or artificial.

14. Plows and all other agricultural tools and implements.

15. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing machines, and separate or
extra parts for the same.

16. Materials of all kinds for the construction and equipment of
railroads.

17. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of
telegraphic and telephonic lines.

18. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas.

19. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wharv