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 PROCLAMATION S. [No. 1.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THB UNITED STATES Oli; AMEBIGA. A PBOCLAMATIONP Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March my 8· 1893- 3, 1891, entitled •‘An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the rmamtis. Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that V<>l·¤¤. 1>-111¤- said act *‘shal1 only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement:" And whereas it is also provided by said section that “ the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require:" And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Denmark the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the subjects of Den~ mark: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States copmgm umu of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions §}‘°f§§,,,,,,,'{{ '“”·'°°*' specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Denmark. In testimony whereot, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this eighth day of May, one thou- SEAL sand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independ- [ '] ence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. Gnovnn Unnvmmn By the President; W. Q. Gnnsrmm Secretary of State. [No. 2.] EXECUTIVE Mmsron, June 30, 1883. Washingtan, D. (7., June 30, 1893. ‘°"""""‘_"‘ Whereas the distrust and apprehension concerning the financial sit- *"'°‘*“**’*°· nation which pervade all business circles, have already caused great loss and damage to our people, and threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels of manufacture, bring distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workingmen the wage of labor: (1219)