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 844 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 12-14. 1885. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and ninth. [SEAL.] GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.

No. 13. April 7,185. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. Whereas, satisfactory evidence has been received by me that upon vessels of the United States arriving at the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies, no duty is imposed by the ton as tonnage tax or as light money, and that no other equivalent tax on vessels of the United Sates is imposed at said Island by the British Government, and whereas by the Pamphlet laws, provisions of section fourteen of an act approved June 26, 1884, ‘*to re- 48th Ovngrw, 1¤¤ move certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage '°'°·· °h· In P- 57· the American foreign carrying trade, and for other pnrposes," the President of the United States is authorized to suspend the collection in ports of the United States from vessels arriving from any Port in the Island of Trinidad, of so much of the duty at the rate of three cents per ton as may bein excess of the tonnage and light—house dues, or other equivalent of tax or taxes, imposed on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated. Collection or Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of
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,,,,,,,,,,],,,1 P,. to hereinhefore mentioned, do hereby declare and proclaim that on and after vssssls m-mug this seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eightydive, from p orts in the collection of said tonnage duty of three cents per ton shall be susgiggegfjymvgg penned ss mgssls all vessels arriving in any pm of as United States kdm_ from a port in the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and ninth. [SEAL.] GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.

No. 14. April 17, 1885. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. _ g‘;’_j‘}_';:‘f_;nd· in Whereas, by an Executive order bearing date the 27th day of I•‘ebru- Dak__,;,_ m `nw om ary 1885, it was order that “ all that tract of country in the Territory wlussbup. Reset. of Dakota known as the Old Winnebago reservation, and the Sioux or gqtivn and the Grow Creek reservation, and lying on the east bank of the Missouri CSL; gk River, set apart and reserved by Executive order dated January 11, 1875, y,,,,,,,, be G ,, mj and which IS not covered by the Executive order dated August 9, 1879, stored eo me pub- restoring certain of the lands reserved by the order of January 11, 1875,