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 PROCLAMATIONS. Nas. 4, 5, 6. 871 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be anixed. . Done at the City of Washiiigton this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety five, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth. GEoVEE CLEVELAND By the President: RICHARD OLNEY Secretary of State. - [No. 5.] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNrTED STATES on AMERICA, .r¤1yio,ms. A PBOCLAMATION. Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March rmmbie. 3, 1891, entitled “An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the V°1‘2°’*"m°‘ 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 an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United Statesyof 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 reqnire:" And whereas satistactory official assurances have been given that in Spain and her provinces and colonial possessions the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially ` the same basis as to the subjects of Spain: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States Bx23m8g gxelggggj of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions or spain. J specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Spain. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aftixed. Done at the City of \Vashington, this Tenth day of July, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-five and of the Independence of [SEAL'] the United States the one hundred and twentieth. Gnovnn CLEVELAND By the President· ALVEY A. ADEE — Acting Secretary of State. [No. 6.] BY THE l’nEsiDENT OF THE LTNITED STATES: N¤v¤mm4,1s9s. A PROCLAMATION. The constant goodness and forbearance of Almighty God which have Preamble. been Vouchsaied to the American People during the year which is just past call for their sincere acknowledgment and devout gratitude.