s on the importer nor impose any
additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance
to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain at
Washington that this action of the Government of Spain in granting
exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United
States of America on their importation into Cuba and Puerto Rico is
accepted for those islands as a due reciprocity for the action of
Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act:

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 Cuba and Puerto Rico 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 31st day of July, 1891, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.

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 the Dominican
Republic 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 the
Dominican Republic at Washington has communicated to the special
plenipotentiary of the United States 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 the Dominican Republic will by due legal enactment admit,
from and after September 1, 1891, into all the established ports of
entry of the Dominican Republic the articles or merchandise named in the
following schedules, on the terms stated therein, provided that