given assurance to
the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Guatemala at
Washington that this action of the Government of Guatemala in granting
freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States
of America on their importation into Guatemala, is accepted as a due
reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said
act; and

Whereas the diplomatic representative of the United States of America at
the city of Guatemala has been advised by the Government of Guatemala
of the passage on April 30, 1892, of an act by the National Congress of
that Republic approving the commercial arrangement concluded between the
Governments of the two Republics and of the issue of a decree admitting,
on and after the 30th day of May, 1892, the articles mentioned in the
above schedule being the product or manufacture of the United States of
America into the ports of Guatemala free of all duties whatsoever:

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 Guatemala 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 18th day of May, 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_.

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
Austria-Hungary 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 importation into the United States of America; and

Whereas the minister plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary at Washington
has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in view of the
act of Congress above cited, the Government of Austria-Hungary has by
due legal enactment authorized the admission, from and after May 25,
1892, into Austria-Hungary of all the articles of me