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 ]_ 222 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 4, 5. [No. 4.] BY THE PRESIDENT on THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ___·’“lY 2°· lm- Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March rmmtie. 3, 1891, entitled "An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the V-·i~ 26- P- 1110- Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights", that said act " shall 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 au 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 Portugal the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the subjects of Portugal: $$82 mg; Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States tr rmugu. of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specined in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Portugal. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. . I Done at the City of Washington, this 20th day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the [SEAL 1 Independence of the United States the one hundred and ‘ eighteenth. GBOVEE CLEVELAND By the President: W. Q. GRESHAM Secretary of State. [No. 5.] BY Tim PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. August iaisms. Whereas, pursuant to section ten, of the act of Congress approved Kgblgfvw March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled ¢*An act vatzv, pam. making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fuliilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four " the Cherokee Nation of Indians, by a written agreement made on the seventeenth mgrmzgggug g day of May, eighteen hundred and ninetythree, has ratified the agreeing cimmkss ouua. ment for the cession of certain lands, hereinafter described, as amended by said act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three and thereby ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished and surrendered all its title, claim, and interest of every kind and character in and to that part of the Indian Territory bounded on the west by the one hundredth degree (1000) of west longitude; on the north by the State of Kansas; on the east by the ninety-sixth degree (96O) of west longj. tude; and on the south by the Creek Nation, the Territory of Oklahoma