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 19 14 CONVENTION—PORTUGAL. MAY 22, 1899. Tariff No. 373. Reaping, mowing and thrashing machines, machines for compressiulg hay and straw, steam-plows, and separate parts of these machines and plow s ares. . Tariff No. 386. Instruments, implements and tools for the arts, manufactories, agricullture, afrtig gardeining; apd upon the following articles shall not exceed the rates ereina r state name y: Upon the foregoing ’machines and articles described in No. 373, five reis per kilogram. Upon the instruments, im lements and tools described above in N0. 386, for use in agriculture and gardening si)xty reis per kilogram U on lighter mineral oils for illuminatin urposes (density of 0.780 up to 0.820; i Ii: f' nition from 37° u to 49°) fort I peis per litre ` po n o ig . y-s x r . f Upon°medium5nLi;1¢;§;l oii)s (density above 0.820 and up to 0.860; point of ignition rom 50 up to l 0 y-two reis per ilogram. U on tar and mineral pitch ten reis per ton. P ARTICLE III. S¤§I>9¤Si<>¤ ¤f •¤<>¤· It is mutually understood that His Most Faithful Majesty’s Government reserves v€Im°n‘ the right, after three months prior notification to the United States Government of its intention to do so, to arrest the operation of this Convention in case the United States shall hereafter impose a duty upon crude cork or coffee being the product of Portugal or of the Portuguese Possessions, or shall give less favorable treatment to the following articles being the product of Portugal or of her Possessions than that accorded to the like articles being the product of any other country not under the control of the United States, namely: argols, crude tartar or wine lees; coffee; cacao; wines; brandies; cork, raw or manufactured; sardines and anchovie preserved; and fruits, not preserved; but in reslpect to fruits the United States reserves the right to make special arrangements app icable to any of the West India Islands. _ Arvrioms IV. ( RMi*l<>¤*i0¤· . This Agreement shall be-ratified by His Most Faithful Majesty so soon as possible, and upon official notice thereof the President of the United States shall issue his Duration. - Proclamation giving full effect to the provisions of Article I of this Agreement. From and after the date of such Proclamation this Agreement shall be in full force and effect, and shall continue in force for the term of Eve years thereafter, and if not then denounced by either Partyl shall continue in force until one year from the time when one mg thef Parties shall ave notified the other of its intention to arrest the operation t ‘ereo . Donedat Wlashington the twenty-sec0nd day of May in the year one thousand eight hundre an ninety-nine. . S,g,,,,mr,,s_ Joan A. KAssoN [satan.] Visconde de SANTO Tnyizso [saAL.]" P¤>¤1¤¤¤¤ti<>¤- And Whereas said Convention has been dul ratified on the art of . Y P. His Most Faithful Ma]esty, official notice whereof has been received by the President,. Now Therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition and collection of the duties mentioned in the first section of said Act and heretofore collected upon . the specihed articles of Portuguese origin as described in said Agreement, and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act as recited in said Agreement to be in full force and effect from and after the date of this Proclamation, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice. In Testimony 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 Twelfth day of June A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and of the Independence of the [SEAL.] United States of America the one hundred and twenty- fourth. WILLIAM MCKINLEY By the President: J orrx HAY Secretar 0State. 3/