Cordage, rope and twine of ail kinds

43. Manufactures of wood of ail 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 régulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations 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 Spécial 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:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, Président of the United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications of the tariff laws of the Dominican Republic 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.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth. [Seal.]

Benj. Harrison.

By the Président:

William F. Wharton,

Acting Secretary of State.

Commerce.

Preceding correspondence.

Senor Galvan to Mr. Foster.

Légation of the Dominican Republic,

Washington, June 4, 1891.

Mr. Minister: The Government of the Dominican Republic having been officially informed of the action of the Congress of the United States of America in the enactment of the tariff law of October I, 1890, authorizing the admission through the custom-houses of said United States, free of ail duty , of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said law , with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the articles named, I am pleased to be able to state to you that the Dominican Government, likewise animated by the désire to maintain the relations of sincère friendship which happily exist betwen the Dominican Republic and the United States of America, and especially recognizing that the close proximity of the two countries suggests the good policy of establishing the reciprocal commerce upon such a basis as shall encourage the development of trade and strengthen friendly feeling between their respective peoples , has resolved to respond in the most libéral manner within its power to the législation above referred to of the Congress of the United States.

I have, therefore , the honor to inform you that the Government of the Dominicain Republic, in reciprocity for, and in considération of, the free admission into ail the ports of the United States exempt from the payment of duties, whether national, State, or municipal, of the products of the Dominican Republic enumerated in section 3 of said law , is prepared, by virtue of the législative resolution of the National Congress of March 23 last, to decree the admission into ail the established ports of entry of the Dominicain Republic, on and after the Ist day of September, 1891, free of ail customs duty and any other national or port charges, of the articles or merchandise named in the following Schedule A, provided that the said articles or merchandise are exported directly from , and are the product or manufacture of, the United States of America :

Schedule A.

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