Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-01

are to be admitted free of duty into Cuba and
Porto Rico from and after September l. 1891:
Meats: Sailed and canned meats, jerked bee
excepted: lard, tallow, fresh. dried and smoked
| fish; canned oysters and salmon; oats, barley
! rye, buckwheat and -four of the cereals. Starch
maize and other products Of corn, excepting
| cornmeal. Cotton seed, cotton seed oil and
meal cake. Hay. straw and bran. Fresh. dried
and preserved fruits except raisins. TeSeta-
bles; woods Of all kinds; wagons, sewing ma
chimes. raw petroleum and coal and ice.
The following articles are 60 be admitted on
payment Of duties stated: Cora, % cents per
hundred kilosrannes. Wheat from January
1. 1892. so cents per hundred k;ioS-a,ales and
| wheat 7our, 81 per hundred kiloSyanres
! Butter ana cheese, refined petroleum and
| boots and shoes are to be admitted at q reduc-
| ton OF outy OF Is per csnturl-
ADMITTED FREE oE DuTT.
From and after July l. 1892. as n dcfinitiTe
arrangement the following articles will be ad-
mitted into Cuba and Porto Rico free of duty:
Marble, jasper, alabaster and other stones. in
GLIDING cement. mineral waters. ice, coal, pitch
tar, turpentine. raw petroleum. bricks and
tiles, gold and silver coin. pig iron iron pipes
beams. raftors. wrought iron. steel and bars
and rails OF all kinds, wrought nails steel wire,
nails. screws, nuts and pipes, raw cotton, cot
ton seed oil and meal cakes, tallov books and
pamphlets, woods Of all kinds manures, aeri-
cultural implements and MACHINERY materials
| ami articles for public works. such as railroad
tramways and roads, sailed and canned m eats
jerked beef excepted. butter, lard and cheese.
Fish of all kinds and canned oysters and salmon.
Oats, barley, rye and buchwheat and hour of
| these grains. Starch. maize and other products
OF corn, except corlmeal. Fruits. except
raislns; vegetables, hay. straw and bran. Trees.
plants, shrubs and garden seeds and tan bark
Corn and cornmeal are to pay duty OF %
cents per 100 kllogrammes; wheat. 80 cents
and wheat Hour, 81 per 100 kilogrammes. Car
risges. cars and other vehicles for railroads or
tramways. per cent at vaiorem.
The following products from manufacturers
OF the United States nre to be admitted at re-
duction of duty of 80 per centum: Glass and
crystal ware, plate and window glass; clay In
| tiles. colored tiles. glazed roof tiles glazed
tiles and pipes. Stone ware, fine eefthen ware
and porcelain, iron and steel axles tires
springs, and wheels for carriages; rivets and
washers, needles, pins, table and carving
knives. razors, penkniYes, scissors; tin plate
IN sheets or manufactured. Copper, bronze,
brass, and nickel in lump or manufacturers
furniture OF all kinds Of wood or metal. Rushes.
vegetable hair, broom corn, willow straw and
other similar articles; rice -four, bread and
crackers; sausa2es, stuffed meats, mustard,
sauces, pickles. jams and jellies; rubber and
gutta percha and manufactures thereof and
rice.
ADMITTED AT A REDUCTION.
The following articles are to be admitted at
reduction of % per centum: Refined petro-
ieum and benzine, manufactured cotton. spun
or twisted, and cotton goods Of all kinds,
woven or knit, and tho same mixed with other
vegetable or animal hbers in which cotton is an
equal or greater component part, and clothing
exclusively OF cotton; rope, cordago and Irvine,
colors, INKS Of all kinds. shoe backing ana var
nishes, soap and perfumery, medicines and
drugs.
Paper fos printing. for decorating rooms, Of
wood or straw Tor wrapping or packing.
Leather and skins, dressed. vanished or
japanned OF all kinds. including sole leather or
betting. Boots and shoes, trunks, valIses and
other similar articles in whole or in part Of
leather. harness and saddlery of all kinds.
Watches and clocks and carriages.
1t Is understood, the President states in his
proclamation, that flour which on its exporta-
ton from the United States has been favored
with drawbacks shall not share in the fore
going reduction OF duties. The provisional
arrangement set forth in the transitory
schedule, the proclamation states, shall come
to an end ON July l, 1892, and on that date be
substituted by the detnitive arrangement out
lined in the proclamation.