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.

The Government of the Dominican Republic gives the assurance that no increase whatever shall be made in the export duties of any character now in force on the articles enumerated in section 3 of the said tariff law of the United States, nor upon any article, the product of said Republic, now on the free list of the tariff of said Uuited States, so long as such article continues to be admitted free of duty; and further, that if the Dominican Republic makes any réduction in the export duty on any of its products, such reducton shall immediately apply to said products when exported to the United States.

The Government of the Dominican Republic also gives the assurance that no greater municipal taxes than those now in force , nor than those levied upon national products, shall be imposed upon articles imported from the United States.

The Government of the Dominican Republic reserves the right to adopt the necessary laws and régulations to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles enumerated in the foregoing schedules are exported directly from, and are the product or manufacture of , the United States ; but the laws and régulations to be

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adopted shall place no undue restrictions upon the importer, nor occasion any additional charges or fees therefor upon the articles imported.

For the better application of the foregoing schedules by the customhouses of the Dominican Republic, it would be mutually convenient that a repertory or classification of articles or merchandise should be compiled before the présent commercial arrangement goes into opération, under the joient supervision of the Légation of the Dominican Republic and the Department of State in Washington.

I have confidence that the Président of the United States will duly regard the présent proof that the Government of the Dominican Republic has met the législation of the Congress of the United States in a spirit of friendly accord and wise reciprocity; and, in that event, I shall hold myself ready to agrée with you upon a time when the decree of the Dominican Republic and the proclamation of the Président of the United States may be simultaneously and offîcially published in both countries, with the understanding that the commercial arrangement , when it shall have been thus promulgated, shall remain in force so long as it shall not be modified by the législative action of either Government or by mutual agreement of the Executive Power of the two countries.

Be so kind as to accept, Mr. Minister, the assurances of my most destinguished considération.

(Signed,) Manuel de J. Galvan.

Honorable John W. Foster.,

Spécial Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Washington.

Mr. Foster to Sefior Galvan.

Département of State.

Washington, June 4. 1891.

Sir: I have great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your note of this date, in which you inform me that the Government of the Dominican Republic, in due reciprocity for, and in considération of, the admission into the ports of the United States free of ail duty , whether national, State, or municipal, of the products of said Republic enumerated in section 3 of the tariff law of the Congress of the United States of October 1, 1890, is prepared by légal enactment to authorize the free or privileged admission, on and after the lst day of September, 1891, of the articles directly imported from , and the product or manufacture of , the United States of America named in your note; that your Government gives the assurance that no increase shall be made in the export tax on the articles admitted free into the United States ; that ail future réduction in the export tax shall immediately apply to such articles when sent to the United States; that no greater municipal taxes than those now in force, nor than those which national products pay, shall be imposed on

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articles importée! from said States; and that the laws and régulations adopted by the Dominican Eepublic to prevent fraud shall not impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles named in your note imported from the United States.

I am directed by the Président to state to you that he accepts this action of the Government of the Dominican Republic , in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States, as a due reciprocity for the action of the Congress of the United States , as contained in section 3 of the tariff law above cited.

I am also pleased to reciprocate the assurances contained in your note, and to state that no export tax, wether national, State, or municipal, can or will be imposed in the United States upon the products or manufactures enumerated in schedules A and B of your note of this dat sent to San Domingo.

It may be further understood that, while the Government of the United States reserves the right te adopt the laws and régulations necessary to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles enumerated in section 3 of the law cited are the product or manufacture of San Domingo, the laws and régulations to be adopted shall place no undue restrictions upon the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees upon the articles imported.

It is also understood that, for the better application of said schedules in the custom-houses of San Domingo, a repertory shall be compiled before the présent commercial arrangement goes into opération , under the joint supervision of the Department of State and the Dominican Légation in Washington.

I have , therefore , to request that you will meet me at the Department of State at your early convenience, to agrée upon the time and manner of making public announcement of this commercial arrangement, which, it is understood , shall remain in force so long as it shall not be modified by the législation of either Government or by the mutual agreement of the Executive Power of the two countries.

I improve the occasion , Mr. Minister , to convey to you the assurances of my high considération and esteem.

John W. Foster, Spécial Plenipotentiary for the United States. The Honorable Manuel de J. Galvan, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic.

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Agreement as to decree of July 4, 1887. Senor Galvan to Mr. Foster.

[Translation.] Légation of the Dominican Republic,

Washington, June 4, 1891.

Mr. Minister: In confirmation of the assurances, given in advance, during the course of the negotiations which resulted in the commercial arrangement concluded this day, I now have the honor to inform y ou that, in considération of the aforesaid arrangement, and as one of the conditions thereof, the Government of the Dominican Republic pledges itself to endeavor, during the next législative session , to secure the repeal of the law of June 26, which was promulgated July 4, 1887, declaring the importation into the Republic of the articles mentioned in the said law to be free er subject to a reduced duty; and that the Executive will take the initiative , as he is privileged to do by the constitution , to the end that the efFects of the aforesaid law cease on the 31st day of March, 1892, or sooner if possible , so far as they relate to the said articles, and to the end that the articles in question be subjected to the tax required by the tariff and to the payment of import duties on and after the day aforesaid ; it being , however , understood and stipulated that ail the articles enumerated in schedules A and B, referred to in my note of this date, that shall have been produced in, and imported directly from , the United States shall be exempt from the payement of such duties , as provided in the aforementioned commercial arrangement.

It is further understood that, if the above - mentioned law of July 4, 1887, shall not be repealed , as above stipulated, before the 31st day of March, 1892, the United States Government shall have the right to déclare the aforesaid commercial arrangement annulled at any time subséquent to the date designated, if it shall think proper so to do.

I reiterate to you, Mr. Minister , the assurances of the considération and respect with which I am your most obedient and faithful servant,

Manuel de J. Galvan.

Honorable John W. Foster, Spécial Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Washington, D. C.

Decree of the national congress of July 4, 1887. [Translation.]

Article I. From the date of this decree until the 31st of December, 1890, and from the latter date until the enactment of another decree repealing the présent, the following-named articles shall be exempted in this Republic from ail fiscal duty , to wit :

Ail kinds of machinery to be used in the sugar and other estâtes

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and in the agricultural and industrial establishments, and the pièces accessory or sent extra to replace those worn out or damaged ; crude tallow and oil, when, upon careful investigation at the custom-house, it is ascertained that it is to be used exclusively for the said machinery; phosphatic and ammoniacal guanos, zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron , hand an steam water pumps, windmills ; bogshead staves, heads, and shooks ; box shooks and bags for sugar, rails and spikes, railroad cars, axles and boxes for carts and wagons, barbed wire for fences , coal ; plows , hoes , axes, spades , hand rakes , short machetes for agricultural purposes , and, generally, ail instruments exclusively applicable to the cultivation of the soil or the clearing of forests.

The exemption provided for in this article for such pièces as are considered accessory to engines or machinery does not apply to screws, screw nuts , nails , bars or sheets of iron or of other metals which can be used for other purposes.

Art. 2. The following-named articles, by whomsoever imported, shall be subject only to the payement of 10 per cent, ad valorem, to wit : Boards , planks , and scantlings of pine, pitch pine, or any other lumber; shingles , roofing tiles , roofing slates , tarred roofing paper , and ail other kinds of roofing; bricks, flagstones of the Canary Islands; iron, steel, and copper in bars or sheets ; nails and crews of iron or copper, whether galvanized or not; Portland Roman cernent, manilla rope; iron, copper, or lead pipes; lighters, whether large or small ; iron tanks; wheelbarrows, picks, mattoks, and shovels of ail shapes ; and ox carts and wagons and the wheels therefor.

Art. 5. Panama hats and revolvers and cartridges shall only pay to per cent., to be assessed , in the case of hats, upon the tariff valuation, and in the case of revolvers and cardridges upon appraisement ; and the duty thus collected shall be used for the same purposes as were set forth in the preceding article. Pianos, organs, and ail other musical instruments, safes, and ail pièces of furniture or articles imported free from duty, unless mentioned in article 1 of this decree, shall be subject to the provisions of the présent article.

Abrogation^of decree of July 4, 1887.

[Translation.]

Ulises Heuraux, General of Division, Commander in Chief of the National Army, Pacifier of the Country , and Constitutional Président of the Republic.

Whereas the decree of the National Congress relating to the free entry of agricultural supplies, dated the 4th of July, 1887, was fixed to remain in force until the 31st of December, 1890, and after that date until other dispositions should be substituted for or abrogate it.

Whereas the commercial arrangement recently concluded between the Government of the Dominican Republic and that of the United States of America allows to agricultural industries, for whose benefit the decree of

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free entry was made, to enjoi equally the advantages of its protectionist

character.

Having beard the views of the members of the cabinet, Resolved, The decree relating to the free entry of agricultural implements of the 4th of July, 1887, is hereby abrogated.

Given in the National Palace in Santo Domingo , capital of the Repnblic, the 5th of August, 1891, the forty-eighth year of the independence and the twenty - eighth of the restoration.

(Signed,) U. Heureaux,

Président of the Republic.

Countersigned :

(Signed,) A. W. y Gril,

Minister of Fomento and of Public Works. (Signed,)' Scindiez, Minister of Finance and of Commerce.

Decree as to new Duties.

[Translation.]

Ulises Heureaux, General of Division, Commander in Chief of the National Army, Pacifier of the Conntry, and Constitutional Président of the Republic.

The law relating to the free entry of agricultural implements , which was to cease to be in force on the 30th of December, 1890, having been abrogated by a previous resolution,

Considering that the commerce of revolvers, cartridges for the same, Panama hats, and musical instruments, including pianos and harmoniums, had been favored by said law by a duty of only 10 per cent, on the invoice value;

Considering that it is necessary to again regulate the commerce of said articles, among which are some prohibited by the law above mentioned,

Resolved, (1) From and after the date of the publication of the présent resolution the custom-houses throughout the territory of the Republic shall collect duties of importation upon the following articles:

(1) Revolvers, each, fixed duty, Sh. 2.

(2) Caps for revolvers, per 100, fixed duty, Sh. 2.

(3) Pianos, large and small, harmoniums, organs, and every kind of musical instruments for bands or orchestras, 10 pert cent, upon the invoice value. Accordions are excepted from this remission, which shall pay the 60 per cent, ad valorem levied upon other merchandise.

(4) Panama hats in the proportion established by the tarifif in force. Given at Santo Domingo, in the National Palace of the Government,

capital of the Dominican Republic, on the 5th of August, 1891, the fortyeighth year of the independence and the twenty-eighth of the restoration. (Signed,) U. Heureaux

(Signed,) Sanchez,

Minister of Finance and Commerce.

Commerce.

Rep ertory.

Repertory of schedules A and B of the reciprocity arrangement.

The undersigned , John W. Foster , representing the Department of State of the United States of America, and Francisco de P. Suarez, representing the Dominican légation in Washington, hereby agrée that, in conformity with the provisions to that end in the commercial arrangement concluded June 4, 1891, between the Governments of the United States and of the Dominican Republic', the annexed repertory shall be observed in the custom -houses of the Dominican Republic in the application of schedules A and B, in accordance with the stipulations of said commercial arrangement.

This repertory, adopting the nomenclature used in the tariff of the Dominican Republic, is intended to embrace the names of merchandise most commonly and frequently appearing in commerce as among those enumerated in schedules A and B. It shall be understood, however, that articles or merchandise which are properly embraced in the numbers of schedules A and B schall enjoy the benefits stipulated in said commercial arrangement, although this repertory does not mention them.

The number put at the side of each name in the alphabetical repertory is the number in the schedule in which the merchandise is embraced.

Schedule A. — Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican

Republic.

No. 1. — Animais, live.