The San Francisco call., 1899-04-17
GUANICA WILL Be
MADE A SUPPORT
Orders Affecting New
Possessions.
INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICIALS
PORTO RICAN EARBoR TO BE
UTILIZED.
Building Material Admitted Free in
Cuba to Encourage the Con-
struction of Improve
ments.
INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICIALS
PORTO RICAN EARBoR TO BE
UTILIZED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, April 16-By the
direction of the President Acting Sec
retary of War Meiklejohn has issued
the following instructions to the mill
tary authorities in Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines:
First. the President directs that Guanica
shall be made SUPPORT Of Porto Rico
1t is said to be one of the best natural
ports in the island of Porto Rico. and
merchants and planters estimate the ex-
ports from the district it serves in sugar
and coffee alone at S3,000,000 annually,
while the imports are estimated at almost
II not quite as large sum.
Second, the President directs that ar
ticles of growth, produce and manufac-
ture of the Philippine Islands exported to
foreign country and returning without
having been advanced in value or i'm
proved in condition by any process of
manufacture or other means and on which
no drawback or bounty has been allowed
shall be admitted free of duty.
Third, any merchandise found on any
vessel entering Cuban port which is not
included in the vessels manifest shall
forfeit an amount equal in value to the
merchandise not manifested. All such
merchandise belonging to or consigned to
the officers or crew Of the vessel is like
wise forfeited unless 1t shall be clearly
proved that the omission was not the re-
suit of freud or collusion. In such case
the master may be allowed to correct his
manifest by means of post entry. Should
any package or article named on the man
ifest be missing on the arrival of the ves-
sci the master is compelled to pay a PEN
atty of 81 per ton unless the deficiency
shall be satisfactorily explained or ac-
counted for.
Fourth, bricks, glazed or unglazed, for
building purposes, as well as undressed
common pine lumber, shall be admitted
into all Cuban ports duty free. This is to
encourage the erection OF residences by
the Cubans.
Fifth, the duty on crude salt shall be 20
cents and on manufactured salt 30 cents
per hundred kilos.
Sixth inventors and owners of patents
shall have the same protection in the sew
eral islands under the military govern
ment of the United States as they re-
ceive under the laws of the United States.
The order especially refers to owners of
patents, including design patents, which
have been issued or shall hereafter be is
marks, prints and labels, which are duly
registered in the United States Patent Of
fee, according to the laws of the United
States relating to grants Of patents and
to the registration of trade marks, prints
and labels
The order further provides that an In
fringement of the rights secured by the
lawful issue Of patent or by registra-
ton of a trademark, print or label shall
subject the guilty person or party to all
the liabilities created and imposed by the
laws of the United States which relate to
such matters.
It is provided however. in such cases as
are above mentioned, that a duly certified
copv of the patent or certificate of regis
tration of the trademark, print or label
must be filed in the Office Of the Governor
General of the island in which protection
is desired. To this provision is added a
second, viz:
That the rights of property in patents
and trademarks secured in the several
islands and other ceded territory to per-
sons under the Spanish laws shall be re-
spected the same as II such laws were in
full force in said islands and territory.