1030 PROCLAMATIONS. Nos. 0,10. No. 9. October 27, 1886. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. P’°*mbl°· Whereas, satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of Spain that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico 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; And whereas, notification of such abolition of discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts as aforesaid, has been given to me by a Memorandum of Agreement signed this day in the City of Washington, between the Secretary of State of the United States and the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Her the Queen Regent of Spain accredited to the Government of the United States of America; Suspension of Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States dismmmagngdu- of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four ties on Spanish thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the ‘v¢¤¤¢i·¤ Md °°" United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the ·`¥°“‘ date of this my Proclamation, being also the date of the notification received as aforesaid, the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of Spain and the produce, manufactures or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from the Islands of Cuba and Port Rico, or from any other foreign country; such suspension to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and no longer. 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 twenty-seventh 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. Bsrann, Secretary of Stale. N o. 10. November 1, 1586. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A PROCLAMATION. 'fhursdsy, No- It has long been the custom of the People of the United States, on a vcmbcr 25. ¤¤ t day in each year especially set apart for that purpose by their Chief
- 1*%** is Th{‘8‘g锑 Executive, to acknowledge the goodness and mercy of God and to invoke
gm°g °y’His continued care and protection. In observance of such custom, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday the twenty- fifth day of November instant, to be observed and kept as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
