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 884 PROCLAMATIONS. nc. 17. [No .17.] l BY THE PRESIDENT on THE UNITED STATES. A PBOCLAMATION. m•g*5b*¤-lm Whereas, by a proclamation of the President of the United States, ` ’P`dated January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, upon proof then appearing satisfactory that no tonnage or lightéhou e dues or any equivalent tax or taxes whatever were imposed upon American vessels entering the ports of the Empire of Germany, either by the Imperial Government or by the Governments of the German Maritime States, and that vessels belonging to the United States of America and their cargoes were not required in German ports to pay any fee or due of any kind or nature, or any import due higher or other than was payable by German vessels or their cargoes in the United States, the President did thereby declare and proclaim, from and after the date of his said Proclamation of January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, the suspension of the collection of the whole of the duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum, imposed upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the Empire of Germany by section 11 of the Act of VM- Mr-8r Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to abolish 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 purposes "; And whereas the President did further declare and proclaim in his Proclamation of January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty- eight that the said suspension should continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes should be continued in thesaid ports of the Empire of Germany and no longer; And whereas, it now appears upon satisfactory proof that tonnage or light-house dues or a tax or taxes equivalent thereto are in fact imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes entered in German ports higher and other than those imposed upon German vessels or their cargoes entered in ports of the United States, so that said Proclamation of J annary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundered and eighty-eight in its operation and effect contraveues the meaning and intent of said section 11 of the Act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six: nqmum ct prpc- Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States {,f,}'{§§{§’({‘,, $,‘,!'§’,’{‘,},§j‘,§ of America, by virtue of the aforesaid section 11 of the Act aforesaid my <·¤ v·~¤•r Mm as well as in pursuance of the terms of said Proclamation itself, do °°""'""' hereby revoke my said Proclamation of January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight suspending the collection of the whole of the duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum (which is imposed by the aforesaid section of said Act) upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the German Empire; this revocation of said Proclamation to take effect on m°°°‘ and after the second day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven. In witness 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 third day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety- [smut] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-nrst. Gnovmz CLEVELAND By the President: Rrcmun Ommr Secretary of State.