eg., 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled; Angora-goat
skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses' skins, raw or
unmanufactured, and skins, except sheepskins, with the wool on, 1-1/2
cents per pound.

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 15th 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 the
United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable,
he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by
proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the
free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the
production of such country for such time as he shall deem just; and in
such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected,
and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or
exported from such designated country--

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact
to be that the Government of Venezuela does impose duties or other
exactions upon the agri