A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 622 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

Whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the Government of Great Britain has by due legal enactment authorized the admission, from and after February 1, 1892, of the articles in merchandise named in the following schedules, on the terms stated therein, into the British colonies of Trinidad (which includes Tobago), Barbados, the Leeward Islands (consisting of the islands of Antigua, Montserrat, St. Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, with their respective dependencies, and the Virgin Islands), the Windward Islands (consisting of St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and their dependencies, but exclusive of Grenada and its dependencies), and into the colony of British Guiana on and after April 1, 1892: 

  Table No. 1.—­Applicable to British Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago,
  Barbados, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands Excepting
  the Island of Grenada.

  SCHEDULE A.

  Articles to be admitted free of all customs duty and any other national,
  colonial, or municipal charges: 

   1.  Animals, alive, to include only asses, sheep, goats, hogs, and
      poultry, and horses for breeding.

   2.  Beef, including tongues, smoked and dried.

   3.  Beef and pork preserved in cans.

   4.  Belting for machinery, of leather, canvas, or india rubber.

   5.  Boats and lighters.

   6.  Books,[27] bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed
      matter in all languages.

   7.  Bones and horns.

   8.  Bottles of glass or stone ware.

   9.  Bran, middlings, and shorts.

  10.  Bridges of iron or wood, or of both combined,

  11.  Brooms, brushes, and whisks of broom straw.

  12.  Candles, tallow.

  13.  Carts, wagons, cars, and barrows, with or without springs, for
      ordinary roads and agricultural use, not including vehicles of
      pleasure.

  14.  Clocks, mantel or wall.

  15.  Copper, bronze, zinc, and lead articles, plain and nickel plated,
      for industrial and domestic uses and for building.

  16.  Cotton seed and its products.

  17.  Crucibles and melting pots of all kinds.

  18.  Eggs.

  19.  Fertilizers of all kinds, natural and artificial.

  20.  Fish, fresh or on ice, and salmon and oysters in cans.

  21.  Fishing apparatus of all kinds.

  22.  Fruits and vegetables, fresh and dried, when not canned, tinned,
      or bottled.

  23.  Gas fixtures and pipes.

  24.  Gold and silver coin of the United States, and bullion.

  25.  Hay and straw for forage.

  26.  Houses of wood, complete.

  27.  Ice.

  28.  India-rubber and gutta-percha goods, including waterproof clothing
      made wholly or in part thereof.

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