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 PRoo1.AMA*r1oNs. Nc. ic. A 1563 Exposition as will most utly and fully illustrate their resources, their 1I1dl1S’l5l'l0S, and their progress in civilization. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eigpt hundred and ninet, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the nited States, the one hundred and nfteenth. Bam. Hsmusou. By the President: , Jamss G. Bnxmm Secretary of State. [No. 16.] BY rum Pnmsmnnr or rms Umrnn Srnrms or Anmmoa. ’ A PROCLAMATION. February 5, 1890. Whereas, pprsuant to Section three of the Act of Congress ap- proved Octo r 1, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the revenue and‘ egualize duties on wows, and for other purposes," the Secretary A”‘°·P·°‘2· o State of the Uni States of America communicated to the Gov- · ernment of the United States of Brazil the action of the Con ress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reci roc5 trade, in declarin the articles enumerated in said Section tllree, to wit, sugars, molasses, cofee 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 consideration of the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of· the articles enumerated in Section three of said Act, the Government of Brazil hw, 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, [govided that the same be the product and manufacture of the nited States of America: —1.—SCHEDULE or Aaricnns ro sm Anurrrmn rams mro saszxn. m{f°,},$],°¤Bm,,•*{m***d. Wheat; Wheat-Hour; · Corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof, including corn meal and starch; Rye, rye·ilour, buckwheat, buckwheat-flour and barley; Potatoes, beans and peas; Hay and oats; Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams; l Fish, salted, dried or pickled; Cotton-seed oil; Coal, anthracite and bituminous; Rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine; Agricultural tools, implements and machinery; Mining and mechanical tools, implements an machinery, including stationary and portable engines, and all machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes, except sewing-machines; Instruments and books for the arts and sciences; Railway construction material and equipment.