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 1>i·:ooI.AMATIONs. Nos. .2-5. 1884. 835 Done this twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one [SEAL] thousand eight hundred and eightythree, and of the Inde- ' pendence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. Signatures. By the President: FREDK. T. FRELINGHUYSEN, Secretary of State. No. 4. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Feb. 14, 1884. · A PROCLAMAIION. Whereas by a memorandum of an agreement, executed at Madrid on Preamble. the thirteenth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, by and between the duly authorized agents and representatives of the Government of the United States of America and of the. Government of His Majesty the King of Spain, satisfactory evidence has been given to me that the Government of that country has abol- Abolition or ished the discriminating customs duty heretofore imposed upon the <1i¤¤ri¤¤i¤¤ti¤s duproduets of, and articles proceeding from, the United States of America, °"’“‘ imported into the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, said abolition to take Cuba, Portomco. effect on and after the first day of March next: Now, therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four thousand two hundred and twentyeight of the Revised Statutes, do R_g_4ggg_814_ hereby declare and proclaim, that on and after the said first day of March next, so long as the products of, and articles proceeding from, Reciprocity the United States, imported into the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, ' shall be exempt from discriminating customs duties, any such duties i on the products of, and articles proceeding from, Cuba and Porto Rico under the Spanish Hag shall be suspended and discontinued. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty- [SEAL.] four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. A. ·ARTHUR. Signature;. By the President: Fnnnx. T. FRELINGHUYSEN, Secretary of State. No. 5. mz run rnnsmnur or run uuirnn srmsns or umn10A. J¤1y1.1884· A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is alleged that certain persons have within the territory Preamble and jurisdiction of the United States begun and set on foot prepara~ tions for an organized and forcible possession of, and settlement upon, the lands of what is known as the Oklahoma lands, in the Indian Territory, which Territory is designated, recognized and described by the treaties and laws of the United States and by the executive authorities as Indian country, and as such is subject to occupation by Indian tribes only; and