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1>no0r.AMATroNs. No. 25. 1023 [N0. 25.] _ BY THE Prursrnnur or THE Uurrnn STATES or Amnnrcn. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the Act of Congress approved Apu; 30, 1892 October 1, 1890, entitled “An Act toreduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,” the Secretary of State of the v01_ 26, p_.6]2_ United States of America communicated to the Government of Honduras 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 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; And whereas the Consul General of Honduras at New York has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in reciprocity for the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said Act, the Government of Hon- _ duras will, by due legal enactment as a provisional measure and until a more complete arrangement may be negotiated and put in operation, admit free of all duty from and after May 25, 1892, into all the established ports of entry of Honduras, the articles or merchandise named comm si-qui in- . in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or $§§¥“°“° '"th H""' manufactrue of the United States: SCHEDULE scrum. of products and manufactures from the United States which the Re- ma¤£;li•=¤ public of Honduras will admit free of all customs, municipal and any duty. um ° other kind of duty. 1. Animals for breeding purposes. 2. Corn, rice, barley, and rye. 3. Beans. 4. Hay and straw for forage. 5. Fruits, fresh. ‘ 6. Preparations of Hour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened, macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin. 7. Coal, mineral. 8. Roman cement. 9. Hydraulic lime. 10. Bricks, nre bricks, and crucibles for melting. 11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravcstones, and building purposes. 12. Tar, vegetable and mineral. 13. Guano and other fertilizers, natural or artificial. 14. Plows and all other agricultural tools and implements. 15. Machinery ofall kinds, including sewing machines; and separate or extra parts of the same. 16. Materials of all kinds for the construction and equipment of railroads. 17. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of telegraphic and telephonic lines. 18. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas. 19. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wlrarves. 20. Apparatus for distilling liquors. 21. Wood of all kinds for building, in trunks or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, or ilooring. 22. Wooden staves, heads, and hoops, and barrels and boxes for packing, mounted or in pieces. _ 23. Houses of wood or iron, complete or in parts. 24. YVagons, carts, and carriages of all kinds.