PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. s, 0. 841 enacted for carrying the foregoing articles into effect, then this article shall be of no etlect; but the omission to make provision by law to P¢·<>vi¤v· give IC etiect by either of the legislative bodies aforesaid, shall not in any way impair any other articles of this Treaty." And, whereas, pursuant to the provisions of Article XXXIII. of said _ Due notice naw Treaty, due notice has been given to the Government of Her Britanuic mg b°°P ¤“'°” by Majesty of the intention of the Government of the United Statesof 2,]°,g’;:;2,§t:;f§ America, to terminate the above recited Articles of the Treaty in ques- articles, em, tion, on the 1st day of July, 1885; And, whereas, pursuant to the terms of said Treaty, and of the notice Saidarticleswill given thereunder by the Government of the United States of America. terminate und extothat of Her Britannic Majesty, the above recited articles of the Treaty l"" J“1Y li 1885 of Washiiigton, concluded May 8, 1871, will expire and terminate on the 1st day of July, 1885; Now, thereiore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States 0iti¤¤¤¤ ¤f the of America, do hereby give public notice that Articles XVIII., XIX., U¤*t_•;dt,§*t*Q£¤ XX., XXL, XX11., XXIII., XXIV., XXV., XXX., and XXX11., ¤rt1ieQ,’}‘,,';f,g,,, ,*;,,,,,3 Treaty of W:ishington, concluded May 8, 1871, will expire and terminate by articles will not on the 1st day of July, 1885, and all citizens of the United States are Mist after that hereby warned that none of the privileges secured by the above recited ‘l““’· articles of the Treaty in question will exist after the lst day of July next; all American fishermen should govern themselves accordingly. Done at the City of Washington. this 31st day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty/tive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninth. [SEAL.] CHESTER A. ARTHUR. By the President: Fnnmr. T. Fnxrmonursmn, . Secretary of State. No. 9. · I BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Jnuutry 31. 1885. A PBOCLAMATION. Whereas, satisfactory evidence has been received by me that upon Preamble. vessels of the United States arriving in ports of the Poviuce of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, or arriving at any port in the Island of Monserrat in the West Indies, or at Panama or Aspinwall, United States of Colombia, or at the ports of San Juan and Mayagnez in the Island of Porto-Rico, no duty is imposed by the ton as tonnage tax or as light money, and that no other equivalent tax on vessels of the United States is imposed at said ports by the Governments to which said ports are immediately subject, and whereas by the provisions of section fourteen of an act approved June 26, 1884 “to remove certain Pamphlet laws, burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the Ameri- *8*-*1 C; {gen gt can foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes! the President of °°”‘· ° ‘ ·P‘ ‘ the United States is authorized to suspend the collection in ports of the United States from vessels arriving from any port in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, the West India Islands, Mexico and Central America down to and including Aspinwall and Panama, of so much of the duty at the rate of three cents per ton as may be in excess of the tonnage and lighthouse dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, imposed on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated: Now, therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States Coneetinn erm;. of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act and ¤¤g¤ duty of three section hereinbefore mentioned, do hereby declare and proclaim that on °°“*° P°‘ *°“ ““"
