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 988 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 5. 28.——School furniture, blackboards, and other articles exclusively for the use of schools. . _ 29.—Books, bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers and printed matter, and paper for printing newspapers. 30.--Printers’ inks of all colors, type, leads and all accessories for printing. 31.——·Sacks, empty, for packing sugar. 32.—Gold and silver coin and bullion. Schedule 1;. Scumnurn B. Ar¤i¤¤e¤ ¤d¤¤i¤¤·* =•* Articles to be admitted into the Dominican Republic at a reduction ’,§,,,Y,`€1°°°’°° °f 25 Pu of duty of 25 per centum: 33.—l\Ieats not included in Schedule A and meat products of all kinds, except lard. 34.——Butter, cheese, and condensed or canned milk. 35.-Fish and shellfish, salted, dried, smoked, pickled or preserved in cans. 36.—Fruits and vegetables, fresh, canned, dried, pickled or preserved. 37.—Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in Schedule A. 38.—Cotton, manufactured, spun or twisted, and in fabrics of all kinds, woven or knit, and the same fabrics mixed with other vegetable or animal nbers in which cotton is the equal or greater component part. 39.·-Boots and shoes in whole or in part of leather or skins. 40.—Pa.per for writing, in envelopes, ruled or blank books, wallpaper, paper for wrapping and packing, for cigarettes, in cardboard, boxes and bags, sand-paper and pasteboard. 41.--Tin plate and tin-ware for arts, industries and domestic uses. 42.-Cordage, rope and twine of all kinds. 43.—Manuiactures of woo.l of all kinds not embraced in Schedule A, including wooden ware, implements for household use, and furniture in whole or in part of wood. · And that the Government of the Dominican Republic has further provided that the laws and regulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedules are the product or manufacture of the Unitd States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported. And whereas the Special Plenipotentiary of the United States has, by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington that this action of the Government of the Dominican Republic, in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into the Dominican Republic, is accepted 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 m£¤¢grrg¤;;g¤:;€;: the United States of America, have caused the above stated modificamas um-S. tions of the tariff laws of the Dominican Republic 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. Done at the City of Washirigttin, this first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninetycne, and of the Independ- {SEAL.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth. BENJ Hxnnrson By the President: W11.LiA11 F WHARTON Acting Secretary of State.