ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, REPUBLIQUE DOMINI- CAINE

Arrangement et Traité de réciprocité en matière des relations commerciales; du 4 juin 1891.

Publication officielle.

By the Président of the United States of America. A Proclamation.

Whereas , pursuant to section . 3 of the Act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled »An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,« the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Dominican Republic the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3, to wit, sugars, molasses, coffee and hides, to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America;

And whereas the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington has communicated to the Spécial Plenipotentiary of the United States the fact that, in reciprocity and compensation for the admission into the United States of America free of ail duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said Act the Government of the Dominican Republic will, by due légal enactment, admit, from and after September 1, 1891 , into ail the established ports of entry of the Dominican Republic, the articles or merchandise named in the following schedules, on the terms stated therein, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly from the ports of said States:

Schedule A.

Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican Republic: