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 satisfactory official assurances have been given that in
Belgium, France, Great Britain and the British possessions, and
Switzerland the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit
of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of those
countries:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States
of America, 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 citizens or subjects of Belgium, France, Great Britain,
and Switzerland.

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 1st day of July, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting 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 Spain 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 Spain at
Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in
reciprocity and compensation 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 Spain will by due legal enactment and as a
provisional measure admit, from and after September 1, 1891, into all
the established ports of entr