nal exhibition will be opened on the 1st
day of May, in the year 1893, in the city of Chicago, in the State of
Illinois, and will not be closed before the last Thursday in October of
the same year. And in the name of the Government and of the people of
the United States I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to
take part in the commemoration of an event that is preeminent in human
history and of lasting interest to mankind by appointing representatives
thereto and sending such exhibits to the World's Columbian Exposition as
will most fitly and fully illustrate their resources, their industries,
and their progress in civilization.

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 24th day of December, 1890, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.

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 the United States of
Brazil 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 wit, sugars, molasses, coffee, and hides, to be
exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of
America; and

Whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil
at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that,
in due reciprocity for and in consideration of 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 Brazil has by legal enactment
authorized the admission, from and after April 1, 1891, into all the
established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether
national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in
the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and
manufacture of the United States of America:

1.--SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED FREE INTO BRAZIL.

Wheat.
Wheat flour.
Corn or maize and the manufactures thereof, inc