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 rnoctxmnions. N0. 18. 101 1 tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that edect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, codec, tea, and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected, and paid upon sugar, molasses, codec, tea and hides, the product of or exported from such designated country}; the duties hereinader set forth: And whereas it has been established to my satisfaction, and I iind the fact to be, that the Government of Colombia does impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses, codec, tea and hides into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of said Act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable: Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States ries admission or of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 3 of said $§§_“,f,;§‘,2§$“,§‘}€°,f,‘{,°§,‘Q Act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare and lumbia ¤¤¤1>¢¤d¤<i- proclaim that the provisions of said Act relating to the iree introduction of sugars, molasses, codec, tea and hides, the production of Colombia, shall be suspended from and after this fifteenth day of March, 1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and exactions are removed by Colombia and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States, and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this fifteenth day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, codec, tea and hides, the product of or exported from Colombia, during such suspension, duties as nasa impmu. provided by said Act as follows: All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color shall sum. pay duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, namely: All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy-five degrees, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test, two hundredths of one cent per pound additional. All sugars above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color shall be classiied by the Dutch Standard of color, and pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar above number thirteen and not above number sixteen Dutch standard of color, one and three-eighths cents per pound. All sugar above number sixteen and not above number twenty Dutch standard of color, one and five-eighths cents per pound. All sugars above number twenty Dutch Standard of color, two cents per pound. Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon, mmm m_ Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either ` as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test. On codec, three cents per pound. com. On tea, ten cents per pound. rei Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled, Angora goat Hides. skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured, asses’ skins, raw or unmanufactured, and skins, except sheep-skins, with the wool on, one and one-half cents per pound. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be adixed. Done at the City of Vfashington, this fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Inde- {SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth. Bmw Hluzmson By the President: WILLIAM F YV1in1x10N Acting Secretary of State.