ade.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
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 11th day of January, A.D. 1892, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.
BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 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 attention of the Government of
Great Britain was called to 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 Great
Britain at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the
fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the Government
of Great Britain has by due legal enactment authorized the admission,
from and after February 1, 1892, of the articles in merchandise named
in the following schedules, on the terms stated therein, into the
British colonies of Trinidad (which includes Tobago), Barbados, the
Leeward Islands (consisting of the islands of Antigua, Montserrat, St.
Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, with their respective dependencies, and
the Virgin Islands), the Windward Islands (consisting of St. Lucia,
St. Vincent, and their dependencies, but exclusive of Grenada and its
dependencies), and into the colony of British Guiana on and after
April 1, 1892:
Table No. 1.--Applicable to British Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago,
Barbados, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands Excepting
the Island of Grenada.
SCHEDULE A.
Articles to be admitted free of all customs duty and any other national,
colonial, or municipal charges:
1. Animals, alive, to include only asses, sheep, goats, hogs, and
poultry, and horses for breeding.
2. Beef, including tongues, smoked and dried.
3. Beef and pork preserved in cans.
4. Belting for machinery, of leather, canvas, or india rubber.
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