Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-03
WITH SAN DOMINGO.
A Reciprocity Treaty with that Ceun
try Aunc uncad by Proclamation.

WAsnIsGroN, Aug. 2-The President
Yesterday issued . proclamation announcing
reciprocity with San Domingo under the
tariff act Of last Oct Der, which, with q
view to securing reciprocity in t,sde, tx-
empte1 from duty sugar. mnlasses, coffee
ard hides imported into the United States
By this treaty the following articles
m mannfactured ia the United States will be
admitted free Of duty into the Dominican
republic from and after Sept. l, 1891
Live animals, meats Of all kinds, excepting
smoked; corn. cornmeal and starch, oats.
barley. rye and buckwheat, and a,ur Of
these grain; hay, bran and straw, trees,
plants, vines and seeds; cotton oil and
meal cake; pitch, tar, turpentine
snd resini coal, mineral waters. ice
machines, mining machinery, agricultural
imple m snts, railway material. wrought and
cast iron and stsel in pigs, bars, rods.
beams, ETC., and wire nails, screws and
piles, zinc, tin and lead and roofing mate
rial copper in bars, plates, nails, etc., and
coppef and lead pipe; bficks, cement.
lime, stone, marble and paving tles; fence
wire, telegraph wire and apparatus for
shipbuilding; school furniture; books,
pamphlet, printed matter and paper for
newspapers ink, gold and silver coin and
bullion.
The following articles are to be admitted
into the Dominican Republic at reduction
Of duty Of rs per centum: Butter, cheese
and condensed milk; fish Of all kinds,
fruits and vegetables Of oil kinds. cotton,
manufactured, spun or twisted, and in
fabrics Of all kinds, wooven or knit, and
the same fabrics mixed with othe. vegs-
table or animal fibreP, 10 which cotton 10
the equal or greater component parts boots
and shoes; writing paper, blank books,
wall paper, paper for wrapping and back
ing, fer cigarettes, in cardboard. boxes and
bsss, sandpapeY and pastebosrd; tinplate
and tinware for arts, Industries and domes-
tic uses; cordage, rope and twine Of all
kiuds; wooden ware, implements for house,
hold uses.
The proclamation closes with the follow
ing language:
And, whereas. the special plenipotentiaIy
Of the United States. has, by my direction,
given assurance to the envoy extraordinary
and minister pienipoten,isry Of the Domini-
can republic At Washington, that th action
Of the government Of the Dominican re-
public. in granting exemption Of duties 70
the products and manufactures Of the
United States Of America on their imporfa-
ton into the Dominican republic, 10 &C.
cepted ~ due reciprocity for the action
of Congress ~ set forth in section three OF
said set Nov, therefore, be il known that
I, Benjsmin Harrison, Presidest Of TIE
United States Of America. have caused
the above stated notifications Of the tariff
laws Of the Dominican republic to be made
public for the information Of the citizens Of
the United States Of America.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto set
my hand sod caused the seal Of the United
States to be sfiixed.
Done 1t the city Of Washington. this first
day Of August. one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one, and Of the Independence Of
the United States Of Amesica, the one hun
dred and sixteenth
BEsJAafs HARRISON.
BY the President:
WIALIAN r. WHAaroN,
Acapg Secretary Of State.