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 1026 rnoonnmnrrons. ues. 26, 27. 28. Machinery, including steam machinery for agriculture and mining, and separate par·ts of the same. 29. Gold and silver, in bullion, dust or coin. w$:,E‘,fg_¥‘“°"“¥°’ °’ It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles ` named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall enter tree of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose. _ And whereas the Government of Guatemala has further stipulated 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 schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall impose no undue restrictions on the importer and no additional charges on the articles imported; And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Guatemala at Washington that this action of the Government of Guatemala in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Guatemala, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said Act; And whereas the diplomatic representative of the United States of America at the city of Guatemala has been advised by the Government of Guatemala of the passage on April 30, 1892, of an act by the National Congress of that Republic approving the commercial arrangement concluded between the Governments of the two Republics, and of the issue of a decree admitting, on and after the 30th day of May, 1892, the articles mentioned in the above schedule, being the product or mauufacture of the United States of America, into the ports of Guatemala free of all duties whatsoever; “01;~_·:ifvé¤::¤t¤:;§:{¤¤- Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of mm `"' the United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications of the tariif laws of Guatemala 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 Washington, this 18th day of May, one thousand [SEAL 1 eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the ' United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth. BEN.! Hnmrsou By the President: J Arms G. Bnnrmn Secretary of State. [No. 27.] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AM1:R.r0A. In 26. 1892._ A PBOCLAMATION. rmmtre. Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved Oc- V°'·2"· P· ‘”2· tober l, 1890, entitled “An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports and for other purposes,” the attention of the Government of Austria-Hungary was called to the action of the Congress ot the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; mE:;¤¤‘y3•,j¤£— And whereas the Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary at nunguy.Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the Government of Austria- Hungary has, by due legal enactment, authorized the admission, from and atter May 25, 1892, into Austria- Hungary of all the articles of mer--