The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
TRADE OF NEW POSSESSIONS
ORDERS AS TO DUTIES ISSUED
FROM WAR DEPARTMENT.
Efforts to Promote Business and
Manufacture In the Islands-Pro-
lection Accorded to Inventors.

Washington, April 16.-By the direc-
ton Of the president, Acting Secretary
of War Meiklejohn has issued the fol-
lowing instructions to the military au-
thorities in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines.
''First-The president directs that
Guanica shall be made a SUPPORT OF
Porto Rico 1t is said to be one Oh the
best natural ports in the island Oh
Porto Rico and merchants and plant
ers estimate the exports from the dis
trict it serves in sugar and coffee alone
at 81. COZ. 900 annually, while the imports
are estimated at almost II not quite
as large a sum.
"Second-The president directs that
articles of growth. produce and manu-
facture of the Philippine islands eX-
ported to foreign country and re-
turning without having been advanced
in value or improved in condition by
any process of manufacture or other
means and on which no drawback or
bounty has been allowed shall be ad-
lnitted free of duty.
''Third-Any merchandise on any
vessel entering a 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 con-
signed TO the consignees of the vessel
is likewise forfeited unless it shall be
clearly proven that the omission was
not the result of fraud or collision. IN
such case. the master may be allowed
TO correct his manifest by means Of a
post-entry. Should any package or
article named on the manifest be miss
ing on the arrival of the vessel, the
master is compelled to pay a penalty
of 81 per ton, unless the deficiency shall
be satisfactorily explained or accounted
for
"Fourth-Bricks, glazed or unglazed,
for building purposes, as well as I'M
dressed common pine lumber, shall be
admitted into all Cuban ports duty
free. This is to encourage the cree
ton of residences by the Cubans.
"Fifth-The duty on crude salt shall
be 20 cents and on manufactured salt
so cents per hundred kilos.
'SiXth-Inventors and owners of pat
ents shall have the same protection in
the several islands under the military
government of the United States as
they receive under the laws of the
United States The order specially re
fers to owners of patents, including de-
sign patents, which have been issued
or shall hereafter be issued, as we'll as
the owners of trademarks, prints and
labels. which are duly registered in the
ing to the laws of the United States re-
lating 10 the grants of patents and to
the registration of trademarks, prints
and labels"
The order further provides that an
infringement Of the rights secured by
the lawful issue Of a patent or by
registration of a trademark, print or
label. shall subject the guilty person or
party to all of the liabilities created
and imposed by the laws ofrthe United
States which relate TO such matters.
1t is provided. however, in such
cases as are above mentioned. that a
duly certified copy of the patent or of
the certificate of registration, trade
mark, print or label must be filed in
the office of the governor general of
The island in which protection is de-
sired. To this provision is adde a sec
ond. viz:
That the rights of property in pat
,nts and trademarks secured in the
leveraI islands and other ceded terri
cory TO persons under the Spanish laws
shall be respected the same as if such
laws were in full force in said islands
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