, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions
specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled
in respect to the subjects of the German Empire.

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, the 15th day of April, 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 Secretary of State of the United
States of America communicated to the Government of Honduras 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 consul-general of Honduras at New York has communicated to
the Secretary of State the fact that, in reciprocity for the admission
into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles
enumerated in section 3 of said act, the Government of Honduras will by
due legal enactment, as a provisional measure and until a more complete
arrangement may be negotiated and put in operation, admit free of all
duty, from and after May 25, 1892, into all the established ports of
entry of Honduras the articles or merchandise named in the following
schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the
United States:

SCHEDULE OF PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES FROM THE UNITED STATES WHICH THE
REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS WILL ADMIT FREE OF ALL CUSTOMS, MUNICIPAL, AND ANY
OTHER KIND OF DUTY.

1. Animals for breeding purposes.

2. Corn, rice, barley, and rye.

3. Beans.

4. Hay and straw for forage.

5. Fruits, fresh.

6. Preparations of flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened,
macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin.

7. Coal, mineral.

8. Roman cement.

9. Hydraulic lime.

10. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for melting.

11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones,
and building purposes.

12. Tar, vegetable and mineral.