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 1978 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 14,15. United States Land OfHce, or uplon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to _fl"ug{}gg;m0n make entry or filing of record has not expired; Provided, that this ` exception shall not continue to apply to any particular- tractpf land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made. ugixgggfed "°m S°'°‘ Warning is hereby expressly given to all lpersons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by t is proclamation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. . Done at the City of Washington this 29, day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth. . . WILLIAM MCKINLEY By the President: J OHN HAY Secretary of State. [No. 15.] July 13.1900 BY Tun PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES on AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. mg§%$;0ggr£§g¤· Whereas the German Government has entered into a Commercial Preamble. “Agreement with the United States in conformity with the provisions V¤l·3¤»v·2°3· of the third Section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, by which Agreement in the judgment of the President reciprocal and equivalent concessions are secured in favor of the prod-- ucts of the United States: Gfrgigsigogggiis °¤ 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 imposed by the first Section of said Act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil and industry of Germany; and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third Section of said Act to be in 1 arce and effect from and after the date of this Proclamation, as follows, namely: " Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem. Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other n1aterials,-one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-Eve cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bott es or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per int or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shalljbe assessed upon the bottles or jugs.