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.

  56.  Trees, plants, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds for
      propagation or cultivation.

  57.  Varnish, not containing spirits.

  58.  Wall papers.

  59.  Watches when not cased in gold or silver, and watch movements
      uncased.

  60.  Water pipes of all classes, materials, and dimensions.

  61.  Wire for fences, with the hooks, staples, nails, and the like
      appliances for fastening the same.

  62.  Yeast cake and baking powders.

  63.  Zinc, tin, and lead, in sheets, asbestus, and tar paper, for
      roofing.

  It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles
  named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if
  they are usual and proper for the purpose.

  SCHEDULE B.

  Articles to be admitted at 50 per cent reduction of the duty designated
  in the customs tariff now in force: 

   1.  Bacon and bacon hams.

   2.  Bread and biscuit.

   3.  Butter.

   4.  Cheese.

   5.  Lard and its compounds.

  Lumber of pitch pine, in rough or prepared for buildings, to be reduced
  to 9 shillings per 1,000 feet.

  SCHEDULE C.

  Articles to be admitted at 25 per cent reduction of the duty designated
  in the customs tariff now in force: 

   1.  Beef, salted or pickled.

   2.  Corn and maize.

   3.  Corn meal.

   4.  Oats.

   5.  Petroleum and its products, crude or refined.

   6.  Pork, salted or pickled.

   7.  Wheat.

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given the assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain at Washington that this action of the Government of Great Britain in granting remissions and alterations of duties in the British colonies above mentioned is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act: 

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above-stated modifications of the tariff laws of the aforesaid British colonies to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 1st day of February, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

By the President: 
  JAMES G. BLAINE,
    Secretary of State.

[Footnote 27:  The importation of books is subject to the provisions of copyright laws.]

[Footnote 28:  The importation of books is subject to the provisions of copyright laws.]

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