PROCLAMATION S. No, S, _ 1029 And whereas, by Article I. of the Commercial Agreement signed at Madrid the thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty- four, it was stipulated and provided that “ the duties of the third column of the customs tariffs of Cuba and Porto Rico, which implies the suppression of the differential flag duty ” should at once be applied to the products of, and articles proceeding from the United States of America; And whereas, the complete suppression of the diiferential flag duty in respect of all vessels of the United States and their cargoes entering the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico is, by the terms of the said Agreement expressly made the consideration for the exercise of the authority conferred upon the President in respect of the suspension of the collection of foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts upon merchandise brought within the United States from Cuba and Porto Rico in Spanish vessels, by said section four thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes, which section reads as follows: Sec. 4228. Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impcsts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued; so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported i-nto the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer. And whereas, proof is given to me that such complete suppression of the differential flag duty in respect of vessels of the United States and ` their cargoes entering the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico has not in fact been secured; but that, notwithstanding the said Agreement dated at Madrid February 13, 1884, and in contravention thereof as well as of the provisions of the said section four thousand two hundred and twenty- eight of the Revised Statutes, higher and discriminating duties continue , to be imposed and levied in said ports upon certain produce, manufactures or merchandise imported into said ports from the United States or from any foreign country, in vessels of the United States, than is imposed and levied on the like produce, manufactures or merchandise carried to said ports in Spanish vessels: ’ Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States Bu 898,,,,0,, of of America, in execution of the aforesaid section four thousand two discgmiuating eo. hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes, do hereby revoke ties on products, the suspension of the discriminating customs imposed and levied in the ¤f¤i·P*`*;’ *§,g"::_‘f ports of the United States on the products of, and articles proceeding Qglmdv ° under the Spanish ilag from Cuba and Porto Rico, which is set forth and contained in the aforesaid Proclamation dated the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; this revocation of said Proclamation to take effect on and after the twenty-fifth day of October instant. 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 \Vashington, this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty- [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eleventh. GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
