PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 15, 16. ]779 “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation and for other purposes," approved April four, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- eight, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of this, my Proclamation, shall be suspended the collection of the whole of the tonnage duty which is imposed by said section eleven of the Act approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States directly from · the port of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark. Provided, that there shall be excluded from the benefits of the sus- E¤>¤P¤¤¤• from pension hereby declared and proclaimed, the vessels of any foreign °°°°°°°i°°° country in whose ports these fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues or duties imposed on the vessels ` of such country or on the cargoes of such vessels; but this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation by foreign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other states of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most favored nation clause in treaties between the United States and such countries. And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue so D¤¤¤¤¤- long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said port of Copenhagen and no longer. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 19th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninetyeight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. . - WILLIAM Moxinrnr By the President: WILLIAM R. DAY Secretary of State. [No. 16.] A PROCLAMATION. _·T¤ly¤·¤¤•¤- ____ Whereas, in the opening of the Cherokee Outlet, pursuant to section P¤·¤¤•¤¤¤·l·»- ten, of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred "°'·2“’-1*·°‘°· and ninety three, the lands known as the Eastern, Middle and Western Saline Reserves, were excepted from settlement in view of three leases made by the Cherokee Nation prior to March third, eighteen hundred V¤1-2¤.i»¤4¤ and ninety three, under authority of the Act of Congress, approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; And whereas, it appears that said leases were never approved as provided by law; _ _ No w, therefore, I, \ViIliam McKinley, President of the United States, gmk, 0.,u,,_ by virtue of the power in me vested by section ten of said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, do hereby declare and make _ known that all the lands in said saline reserves, as described in a Procla- ucR3::;?lf¤j_¤; gm mation dated August nineteenth. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, anus Rams. are hereby restored to the public domain and will be disposed of under v°'·”·P·“"· the laws of the United States relating to public lands in said Cherokee Outlet, subject to the policy of the Government in disposing of saline lands. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed.
