The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1892-02-09
RECIPROCITY WITH GERMANY,

Proclamation by the President Announce
Ing the Conclusion of the Reciprocity
Agreement with Germany List of
American Articles to be Admitted Free
or, ut Reduced Rates.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 3.-The president
yesterday afternoon issued proclama-
tion announcing the reciprocity agree
ment finally concluded between the
United States and Germany. 1t is as
follows:
By the president Of the United States Of
America,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section Of the act Of
congress approved October |, 1890, entitled IAN
act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties
on imports, and for other purposes" the at
tention Of the government Of the German en-
pire was called to the action of the congress of
the United States of America with view to Sc
curing reciprocal treaty in declaring the ar
ticles enumerated in section / to be exempt
from duty on their importation into the United
States of America; and,
WHEREAS, The charge d'affaires of the Ger
man empire at Waship zton has comm unicated
to the special plenipotentiary Of the Ur,ted
States the fact, that in view OF the act Of con-
gress above cited, the German imperial govern
Ii1tllt has, ny uu6 legal enactment, duCnOT1Zeu
the admission, from and after February |, 1892,
into the German empire, of the articles or mer-
chandise, the product OF the United States of
America, named in the following schedule, on
the terms stated therein:
SCHEDULES OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED INTO
GERMANY.
Bran malts, germs, free.
Flax, raw, dried, broken or hetcheled, also re.
fuse portions free.
Wheat, $780,
Rye, $3.50.
Oats, $3.50.
Buckwheat, $500.
Pulse. $150
Other kinds Of grain not especially mentioned,
$lOO
Barley, 500.
Rape seed, turnip seed, poppy, sesame, pea
nuts and other oleaginous products not specially
mentioned S200
Corn or maize, 60.
Matted (malted barley, $500.
Anise, corriander, fennel and caraway seed
$500.
Agricultural productions, not otherwise des
ignated, free.
Horse hair, raw. hetcheled, boiled dyed; also
laid in the form of tresses and spun; bristles,
raw bed feathers, free.
Bed feathers cleaned and prepared free.
Hides and skins, raw (green, salted, lined,
uTleu1, anu StTlppeu VI tue udlT lOT Iue mduu-
facture of leather, free.
Charcoal, free.
Bark of wood and tan bark free.
Lumber and timber. (A), raw or merely
rough hewn with axe or saw, with or without
bark; oaken barrel slaves, $1,000
(B). Marked in the direction Of the Longitude
nal axis, or prepared or cut otherwise than by
rough hewing; barrel slaves not included under
(A); unpeaed osers and hoops; hubs, feloes
and spokes, 5000
(C). Sawed in the direction of the Longitude
nal axis unplaned boards; sewed cantle woods
and other articles. sawn OF hewn, 5000.
Wood in cut veneering; unglued, unstaine
parts Of floors, $500.
Hops, also hop meal, IA cents, tgross.
Butter; also artificial butter, II cents.
Meat, slaughtered, fresh with the exception
of pork, Is cents.
Pork, slaughtered, fresh and dressed meat,
with the exception of bacon, fresh or prepared,
II cents.
Game of all kinds mot alivel 20 cents.
Cheese, except strechine, gorgonztiB and
parmesan, 20 cents.
Fruits, seeds, berries, leaves flowers mush-
rooms, vegetables, dried baked, pulverized
only boiled down or salted, all these products
30 far as they are not included under other
numbers Of the tariff; juices Of fruits, berries
and turnips; preserved without sugar to bs
eaten; dry nuts, cents.
Mill products Of grain and pulse. to-wit:
Ground or shelled grains, peaed barley, groats,
grits, -four common cakes (bakers' productsl,
$3.50
Residue, solid, from the manufacture Of fat
oils; also ground, free.
Goose grease and other greasy fats such as
oleomargarine, sperfett IA mixture Of stearic
fats with OILY beef marrow 10 cents.
Live animals and animal products not men
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free
Horses, 5000 (each)
tA)-Horses up to two years old, $1,000.
(B)-Colts following their dams, free.
Bulls and cows, $500.
Oxen $3.50.
Calves less than six weeks old, $500,
Hogs, $500
Pigs, weighing less than 10 kilograms, sl.oo
Sheep, S1.00
Lambs, 30 cents.
Wool, including animal hair not mentioned
elsewhere as well as stuffs made thereof;
tA) Wool, raw, dyed, ground, also hair, raw,
hetcheled boiled, dyed; also curled, free.
AND, WHEREAS. The special plenipotentiary
of the United States, has by my direction given
assurance to the charge daffaires of the the
German empire at Washington, that this action
of the government Of the German empire, In
granting exemption Of duties to the products
and manufactures of the United States Of
America on their importation into Germany, is
accepted as a due reciprocity for the action Of
congress as set forth in section Of said act;
Now, therefore,
Be IL kno,cn, That l, Benjamin Harrison. presi-
dent Of the United States Of America, have
caused the above stated notifications Of the
tariff laws Of the German empire to be made
public for the information of the citizens Of the
United States of America.
Tn taetimonv whereof I have hprpuntO eat nv
| hand and caused the seal of the United States
| to be affixed.
| Done at the City Of Washington this 1st day Of
February, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety two, and Of the independence Of the
United States Of America the 1l6th.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
| BY the President: James G.. Blaine, secretary