Exposition as will most fitly and fully illustrate their resources, their industries, and their progress in civilization. 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 twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States, the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. JAMES G. BLAINE Secretary of State. [No. 16.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, pursuant to Section three 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 the United States of Brazil 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 three, 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 Brazil at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in due reciprocity for and consideration of the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in Section three of said Act, the Government of Brazil has, by legal enactment, authorized the admission, from and after April 1, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether national, state, al, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America: municipal, or 1.-SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED FREE INTO BRAZIL. Wheat; Wheat-flour; Corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof, including corn meal and starch; Rye, rye-flour, buckwheat, buckwheat-flour and barley; Potatoes, beans and peas; Hay and oats; Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams; Fish, salted, dried or pickled; Cotton-seed oil; Coal, anthracite and bituminous; Rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine; Agricultural tools, implements and machinery; Mining and mechanical tools, implements and machinery, including stationary and portable engines, and all machinery for manu facturing and industrial purposes, except sewing-machines; Instruments and books for the arts and sciences; Railway construction material and equipment. February 5, 1890. Ante, p. 612. Articles admitted free into Brazil. And that the Government of Brazil has, by legal enactment, further authorized the admission into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, with a reduction of twenty-five per centum of the duty designated on the respective article in the tariff now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America: Articles admitted 2. - SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED INTO BRAZIL WITH at reduced duty into Lard and substitutes therefor; Bacon hams; Butter and cheese; Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits and vegetables; Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing; Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing free schedule; Leather and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes; Lumber, timber, and the manufactures of wood, including cooperage, furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts and carriages; Manufactures of rubber. And that the Government of Brazil has further provided that the laws and regulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations 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 Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington that this action of the Government of Brazil in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress, as set forth in Section three of said Act: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President cations of Brazilian of the United States of America, have caused the above stated modi Reciprocal modifi fications of the tariff law of Brazil 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 fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. BENJ. HARRISON. [No. 17.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is provided by section twenty four of an Act approved March the third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, entitled an act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes: "that the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and limits thereof." March 30, 1891. Preamble. Now therefore, I Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby make known and proclaim that there has been and is hereby reserved from entry Forest reservation, or settlement and set apart for a public forest reservation all that Wyoming. tract of land situate in the State of Wyoming contained within the following described boundaries. Beginning at a point on the parallel of forty four degrees fifty Boundaries. Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or Reserved from setmake settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclama- tlement. tion. In witness 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 30th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety [SEAL.] one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE Secretary of State. BENJ HARRISON. [No. 18.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby published for the information of all concerned. April 4, 1891. R.S., sec. 1956, p. 343. Section 1956, Revised Statutes, Chapter 3, Title 23, enacts that: "No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or Fur-bearing animals, other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory, or Alaska. in the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof, shall, for each offence, be fined not less than two hundred nor more than one Vol. 25, p. 1009. Laws prohibiting killing of fur-bearing thousand Dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, found engaged in violation of this Section shall be forfeited, but the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or other fur-bearing animal, except fur seals, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to prevent the killing of any fur seal, and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall he grant any special privileges under this Section." * * * * Section 3 of the act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska " approved March 2, 1889, provides that: "Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United animals in Alaska de States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion waters of Behring Sea of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea, and it shall be in dominion of United the duty of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his clared to include States. Persons warned against entering Beh proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month at least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering such waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section, and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein." Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United ring Sea intending to States, pursuant to the above recited statutes, hereby warn all per violate laws. sons against entering the waters of Behring Sea within the dominion of the United States, for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956, Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim, that all persons found to be, or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States, in said waters, will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes will be seized and forfeited. 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 fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE Secretary of State. 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