rstood that the packages or coverings in which the articles
named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if
they are usual and proper for the purpose.

And that the Government of Nicaragua has further stipulated that the
laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud
in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing
schedule are the product of the United States of America shall impose
no undue restrictions on the importer nor additional charges on the
articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to
the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Nicaragua at
Washington that this action of the Government of Nicaragua in granting
freedom of duties to the products of the United States of America on
their importation into Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua 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 12th day of March, 1892, 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 in section 3 of an act passed by the Congress of the United
States entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on
imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890, it was
provided as follows:

That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing
the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the 1st
day of January, 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be
satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting
sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of
such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural
or other products of the United States which, in view of the free
introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into th