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 1248 PROCLAMATION S. N0. 10. [N o. 10.] my 2, 1894, BY rms Punsrnmnr or run Unrcrrm Siurrzs or Armuicn. A PROCLAMATION. Prwnbie Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me that no light house and light dues, tonnage dues, beacon and buoy dues, or other equiva- ` lent taxes of any kind, are imposed upon vessels of the United States in the ports of the Island of Grenada, one of the British West India Islands- Now, itherefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section eleven V°l· % P- *1- of the Act of Congress, entitled “An Act to abohsh certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels, and for other purp0ses”, approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and V01·25. p-80- eighty six, and in virtue of the further Act amendatory thereof, entitled “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation and for other pur- _ poses", approved April four, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 1_<§ir¤¤¤¤¤» W¤¤¤ eight, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of · suiiismau or au- this, my Proclamation, shall be suspended the collection of the whole approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty six upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the_ Island of Grenada. V¤•¤1¤ ¤¤¤1¤¤•»¤- Provided, that there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed, the vessels of any foreign couutryin whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of such country, or on the cargoes of such vessels; but this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation by forei countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the; cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other states of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most favored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries. $:¤wM ·>f ·¤¤· And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue ` so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said ports of the Island of Grenada and no longer. , In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atiixed. Done at the city of Washington this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred  ninety- [sen.] four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth. _ Gnovrzn Omvmmn By the President: W. QL Grmsrurr Secretary of State.
 * ,g°bgjY °P°'* "°°· of the tonnage duty which is imposed by said section eleven of the Act