provision.
And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that
the lands mentioned and included in this proclamation shall be, and the
same are, attached to the Western land district, office at Kingfisher,
and the Oklahoma land district, office at Oklahoma City, in said
Territory of Oklahoma, as follows:
1. All of said lands lying north of the township line between townships
13 and 14 north are attached to the Western land district, the office of
which is at Kingfisher, in said Territory.
2. All of said lands lying south of the township line between townships
13 and 14 north are attached to the Oklahoma land district, the office
of which is at Oklahoma City, in the said Territory.
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 12th day of April, 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 it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3,
1891, entitled "An act to amend Title LX, chapter 3, of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act
"shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation
when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United
States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same
basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign state or nation is a
party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in
the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United
States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement;"
and
Whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of
either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President
of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the
purposes of this act may require;" and
Whereas in virtue of said section 13 of the aforesaid act of Congress
a copyright agreement was signed at Washington on January 15, 1892, in
the English and German languages, by the representatives of the United
States of America and the German Empire, a true copy of the English
version of which agreement is, word for word, as follows:
The President of the United S
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