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 PRo0LAMAr1oNs. No. 5. 987 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 Cemmorvhi nrthe same be the product or manufacture of the United States and pro- $S5$E`1Yliispv;tiic.D°' ceed directly from the ports of said States: Scnmmrn A. Schedule Al Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican Republic: ,¤;*0"{§_§f,f,;,:Q’lf*”{,°_;’ 1.-Animals, live. public me or duty. · 2.—Meats of all kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked. 3.-~Oorn or maize, corn-meal and starch. 4.—0ats, barley, rye and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals. 5.-Hay, bran and straw for forage. 6.-Trees, plants, vines and seeds and grains of all kinds for propa» gation. 7 .-Ootton—seed oil and meal cake of same. 8.—Tallow in cake or melted and oil for machinery, subject to examination and proof respecting the use of said oil. 9.—Resin, tar, pitch and turpentine. 10.-—Manures, natural and artificial. 11.—Ooal, mineral. ' 12.-Mineral waters, natural and artificial. 13.—Ice. 14.-—Machines, including steam engines, and those of all other kinds, and parts of the same, implements and tools for agricultural, mining, manufacturing, industrial, and scientific purposes, including carts, wagons, hand-carts and wheelbarrows, and parts of the same. 15.-Material for the construction and equipment of railways. 16.--Iron, cast and wrought, and steel, in pigs, bars, rods, plates, beams, rafters and other similar articles for the construction of buildings, and in wire, nails, screws and pipes. _ 17 .-Zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets, asbestos, tar-paper, tiles, slate and other material for rooting. 1S.—Copper in bars, plates, nails and screws. 19.-·Oopper and lead pipe. 20.—Bricks, tire bricks, cement, lime, artificial stone, paving tiles, marble and other stones in rough. dressed or polished, and other earthy materials used in building. 21.—Windmills. _ _ 22.—Wire, plain or barbed, thr fences, with hooks, staples, nails, and similar articles used in the construction of fences. 23.-—-Telegraph wire and telegraphie, telephonic and electrical apparatus of all kinds for communication and illumination. 24.—-W'ood and lumber of all kinds for building, in logs or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, tlooring, joists, wooden houses, mounted or unmounted, and accessory parts of buildings. 25.——Cooperage ofall kinds, including staves, headings and hoops, barrels and boxes, mounted or unmounted. 26.——Materials {br shipbuilding. 27.—Boats and lighters.