er for the purpose.

SCHEDULE B.

Articles to be admitted at 50 per cent reduction of the duty designated
in the customs tariff now in force:

1. Bacon and bacon hams.

2. Bread and biscuit.

3. Butter.

4. Cheese.

5. Lard and its compounds.

Lumber of pitch pine, in rough or prepared for buildings, to be reduced
to 9 shillings per 1,000 feet.

SCHEDULE C.

Articles to be admitted at 25 per cent reduction of the duty designated
in the customs tariff now in force:

1. Beef, salted or pickled.

2. Corn and maize.

3. Corn meal.

4. Oats.

5. Petroleum and its products, crude or refined.

6. Pork, salted or pickled.

7. Wheat.

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given the
assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
Great Britain at Washington that this action of the Government of Great
Britain in granting remissions and alterations of duties in the British
colonies above mentioned 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 aforesaid British colonies 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 February, 1892, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 27: The importation of books is subject to the provisions of
copyright laws.]

[Footnote 28: The importation of books is subject to the provisions of
copyright laws.]

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 the
German Empire 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 importatio