The Portland daily press., 1874-06-26
The Proposed Reciprocity Treaty.


The full text of the proposed reciprocal reg
ulations of commerce and trade between the
United States and Canada appeared in the To-
ronto Globe OF Tuesday, and in other Dominion
papers of Wednesday. The following is an alb
stract of the treaty, including the entire text of
the more important sections:
Article 1 provides that in addition to the lib
erty given United States fishermen by the con-
vention of 1918, they shall be allowed to take
fish of every kind except shell fish on the
coasts and shores, and in the bays, harbors and
creeks of the various provinces of the Domin-
ion, and to cure the same on the coasts, pro-
vided they do not interfere with the property
of Dominion citizens. This right applies ex-
clusvely to sea fisheries; salmon, shad and
other fisheries at the mouths of and in rivers
are reserved for British fishermen.
Article 2. confers the same rights upon Brit
sh fishermen in American waters north of the
39th parallel.
Articl-~3, declares that the places designated
by the treaty on the coast of the respective
nations, reserved by the treaty OF reciprocity of
1855, from common right of fishing, are re-
served in the proposed treaty; and in case of
'-'SPaeo "oouO ouSh piaSCs, SuCu pidCcS SudI Uo
designated by commission.
Article 4 provides that the articles enumer.
ated in the following schedules, being the
growth, produce and manufacture of the Uni
ted States and the Dominion shall, on impor-
tation from one country into another,
from July LIST 1875 to June Both, 1876, pay
two-thirds of the duty existing in either couD-
try at that time, and for the next succeeding
year but one-tnird of the duty payable at that
time. After June 30th, 1877, the articles
given in the schedules are to be admitted free
of duty for the period of nineteen years, but
the treaty cannot be erninated at end of the
twenty-oue year. ffem it's going in force with
out notice of three years being given, The
following are the schedules:
SCHEDULE A.
Consisting Of the following natural products:
Animals of all kinds; ashes, pot, peal and
bath bricks; breadstuffs of all kinds; bricks
for building and fire bricks; broom-corn; burr
or grind-stones, hewed, wrought, or un
wrought; butter; cheese; coal and coke; cot
ton-wool; cotton-waste; ,dye-stuffs; earths;
clays; oehres, sand, ground or unground; eggs;
h;h OF all kinds; fish, products of, md of ali
other creatures living, in the water, except
fish preserved in oil; firewood, flax, unmanu-
featured; fours and meals of all kinds:
fruits fruits; green n, or dried; furs undressed
unground. or calciled; hay; hemp, III,
manufactured; hides; horns lard; lime;
malt; manures; marble, stone, slate, or
granite, wrought or unwrought; meats, fresh,
smoked OF salten,. ores of all kinds of metals;
pelts; pease, whole or s, lit; petroleum oil:
crude or refined, or benzole; pitch; plants;
poultry of all kinds: rags of all kinds rice;
salt; seeds; shrubs; skins; straw; tails; tai
low; tar; timber and lumber of all kinds;
round, hewed, and sawed, manufactured in
whole or in part; tobacco, manufactured:
tow, manufactured; trees; turpentine; veg
etables; wool.
SCHEDULE b.
Consisting of the following agricultural i'm
plements:-
Axes, bag-holders, bee-hives, bone-crushers
or parts thereof, cuitivators or parts thereof.
churns or parts hereof, corn-huskers or parts
thereof, cheese watts, cheese factory heaters,
cheese presses or parts thereof chaff- cutters or
cattle-feed boilers and steamers or parts there
OF, bitches or parts thereof, fed-rollers or parts
thereof, flaming mills or parts thereof, feed
choppers or parts thereof, forks for hay and
manure, hand or horse, grain-drils or parts
thereof, grain broadca sewers or parts there.
of, grain-crushers or parts thereof, harrows
hoes, hand or horse, horse rakes. horsepower
machines or parts thereof, hay-tedder or parts
thereof, liquid manurecarts or parts thereof,
manure sewers or parts thereof, mowers or
parts thereof oil and Oil-cake crushers or parts
thereof, plows or parts thereof, root and seed
planters or parts thereof, root-cutters, pulpers
and washers or parts thereof, rakes, reapers or
parts thereof, reaper and mower combined or
parts thereof, spades, shovels scythes, snaths,
thrashing machines parts thereof.
SCHEDULE C.
consisting of the following manufacturers
axes, all'kinds; boots and shoes of leather;
pooG ana shoe making machines buffalo robes,
dressed and trimmed; cotton grain bags; cotton
denlms; COTTON Jeans unbleached cotton drill
cottonades unbleached cabinet ware and fur.
niture, or parts thereof; carriages. carts. wagons
and other wheeled vehicles and seiehs' or narts
thereof; fire engines, oriparts thereof; felt Gov.
erng for boilers: gutta percha betting and tu-
bling; iron, bar, hoop. pig, puddled, rod, sheet
or scrap; iron nails, spikes bolts, tacks, brads
or springs: iron castings; india rubber betting
and tubing locomotives for railways or parts
thereof; lead. sheet or pig; leather, sole or up
per; leather, harness, and saddlery off, mill or
factory, or steamboat fixed engines and ma
chimes, or parts thereof; manufactures of mar
Bile, stone, slate, or granite; manufactures of