ETATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, GRANDE-BRETAGNE

Arrangement et Traité de réciprocité en matière des relations commerciales; du 1 février 1892.

Publication officielle.

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

Whereas, pursuant to section 3of the Act of Congress approved October î, 1890, entitled >An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,c the attention of the Government of Great Britain was called to 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 be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America ;

And 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 légal enactment , authorized the admission, from and after February 1, 1892, of the articles in merchandise named in the following schedules , on the ternis stated therein , into the British Colonies of Trinidad (which includes Tobago), Barbados, the Leeward Islands (consisting of the islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Saint 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 Tabago, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, and the Windward Islands Excepting, the Island of Grenada.

S chedule A.

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

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