24.  Wood and lumber of all kinds for building, in logs or pieces,
      beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, flooring, joists,
      wooden houses, mounted or unmounted, and accessory parts of
      buildings.

  25.  Cooperage of all kinds, including staves, headings, and hoops,
      barrels and boxes, mounted or unmounted.

  26.  Materials for shipbuilding.

  27.  Boats and lighters.

  28.  School furniture, blackboards, and other articles exclusively for
      the use of schools.

  29.  Books, bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers and printed matter,
      and paper for printing newspapers.

  30.  Printers’ inks of all colors, type, leads, and all accessories for
      printing.

  31.  Sacks, empty, for packing sugar.

  32.  Gold and silver coin and bullion.

  SCHEDULE B.

  Articles to be admitted into the Dominican Republic at a reduction of
  duty of 25 per cent: 

  33.  Meats not included in Schedule A and meat products of all kinds
      except lard.

  34.  Butter, cheese, and condensed or canned milk.

  35.  Fish and shellfish, salted, dried, smoked, pickled, or preserved
      in cans.

  36.  Fruits and vegetables, fresh, canned, dried, pickled, or preserved.

  37.  Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in
      Schedule A.

  38.  Cotton, manufactured, spun or twisted, and in fabrics of all kinds,
      woven or knit, and the same fabrics mixed with other vegetable or
      animal fibers in which cotton is the equal or greater component
      part.

  39.  Boots and shoes in whole or in part of leather or skins.

  40.  Paper for writing, in envelopes, ruled or blank books, wall paper,
      paper for wrapping and packing, for cigarettes, in cardboard,
      boxes, and bags, sandpaper and pasteboard.

  41.  Tin plate and tinware for arts, industries, and domestic uses.

  42.  Cordage, rope, and twine of all kinds.

  43.  Manufactures of wood of all kinds not embraced in Schedule A,
      including wooden ware, implements for household use, and
      furniture in whole or in part of wood.

And that the Government of the Dominican Republic has further provided that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall place no undue restrictions on the importer nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported; and

Whereas the special plenipotentiary of the United States has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington that this action of the Government of the Dominican Republic in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into the Dominican Republic is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act: