The Forrest City times., 1891-02-13
USHER IN RECIPROCITY
Tho President Proclaitno q
 With Brasil
A MEASURE or FREE TRADE
UaAas tAe Now LAv the Rpogaaeno lUuao Ah Rroelanasisu Announcing on Agrssnsss DstwssA the
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WAsnTNaToH, Q. O.. Tsbruaxy 0@4 President late this afternoon issuo6 ~ following proclamation:
 By the President of the United ooatoo Gl AmSrica--A prsc ama,ion:
 Whereas, Pursuant to section . q oAo act of Congress approved October 1, 1oo0y emit cd "An act te reduce the revenne and eQualize duties ea imports, and for ether purp0ses," the Secretary of State Of tho Uni cd States of America communicated the Government of tho United 6tatso e1 Brazil the action of the Congress of tAo United States of America, with view 1o securing reciprocal trade, in declariug tho artic enumerat d in said section 8, to wit: sugars, molasses, coffee and hides, 70 bo exempt from duty on their importation into the United States of America; and
 Whereas, The envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil a Washington, has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact tnat, in due reciprocity for, and consideraisn of, the admission into the United States of Ameri. ca free of al duty of the articles enumcr- ated in section of said act, the Govern. ment of Brazil has, by legal enactment,
 
 April l, 1881, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, wbet or national, State or municipal, ot the article of merchandise named in tho following scaedule, provided that tho same be the product and mauufacture q the United States of America.
 Schedule of articles to be admitted 1ree into Brazil: Wheat wheat flour, cora ou maize and the manufactures thereof, inS cluding oornmeal and starch; rye, rye flour, buckwheat, buckwheat flour an6 barley; potatoes, beans and peas; hay anA oats, pork, satcd, including picklod ror1 and bacon, except hams, fish, salted, drtod or pickled; cotton-seed oil, coal, anthracite and bituminous; rosn, tar, pill tch and tur. pentine; agricultural tools, implemsnts and machinery, mining and mechanical tools, implements and machinery, includs ing stationary and portable engines. and all machinery for manufacturing and h. dustrial purposes, except sewing mas chimes; instruments and books for the arts and sciences; railroad construction mo terial and equipments; and that the 0ov- srnment of Brazil has by legal ensctme01 further authorized the admission Into all the established ports of entry of Brasil with . reduction of 25 per ccntum Of the duty designated on the respective articlo1 q tari6 now in force or which may here after be adopted in the United States ~ Brazil, whether national. State or munioi. | pal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedu.s, provided that the s2ne be the product or manufacture o1 | the United States of AmeriCa
 Whereas, The Secretary of State has by my direction given assuraucs to ths En. voy Extraordinary and Minister Pleat potentiary of Brazil It Washington, tha1 this action of the Government of BrAsil i6 granting exemption of duties 10 the pro | ducts and manufactures of the Untto1 States of America is accepted as . 1no reciprocity for the action of Congreso an set forth in section of said act Now, therefore, b. 1t known that ], Ben. 1amia Harrison, President of the United 1 States of America, have caused the abova stated notifications of the tari6 law ee Brazil to be made public for the informa- tion of the citizens of the United Staten 1 of America.
 in testimony whereof, have hereun4e | set my hand, and caused the seal of tho United States to be affixed.
 l Done at the City of Washington, thie fifth day of February, one thousand eiehl hunofed and ninety-one, and of the inde. pendenco of tho United States of Amerlco the one hundred and fifteenth.
 tSeal.l (Signed) BENJAMIN HAa1rsoN. By the F. esident: James c. Blaine, Secretary of State.