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1014 rnoonarmrious. Nos. 20, 21. introduction of sugars, molasses, coilee, tea and hides, the production of Venezuela, shall be suspended from and after this fifteenth day of March, 1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and exactions are removed by Venezuela and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States, and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this fifteenth day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, coiiec, tea and hides, the product of og ¢=i)xport§dA from Vapezuela, during such suspen- - sion duties as rovide said ct as o ows: gxé? mmm. All sugars ndt above nu)inber thirteen Dutch Standard in color shall

 pay duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy-five degrees, seven—tenths of one cent per pound; and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test, two hundredths of one cent per pound additional. All sugars above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of color, and pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar above number thirteen and not above number sixteen Dutch standard of color, one and three-eighths cents per pound. All sugar above number sixteen and not above number twenty Dutch standard of color, one and live-eighths cents per pound. All sugiars above number twenty Dutch standard of color, two cents _ per poun . Moiamsew. Molasses testing above ’fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon. Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as (moieties orilisugar, as the case may be, according to polarscopic test. Cmfw. n co ee, t ce cents per poun . rea. On tea, ten cents per pound. mass. Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, Angora goat skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured, asses’ skins, raw or unmanpfailctured, and skins, except sheep-skins, with the wool on, one and one- a cents per poun . Ip witnesg wggrgof, I havle hegcugto set my hand and caused the sea of the nit tates to e a xc . Done at the City of Washington, this nfteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the lnde· [SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America, the one hundred and sixteenth. Bmw Hnemsou By the President: V WIIJLIAM F W11ARTON Acting Secretary of State. [No. 21.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAIVIATION. umu 1s,1m Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of an Act approved wpggjjry March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to revon. 26, pmm. peal timberculture laws and for other purposes," “That the President of the United States may, trom time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof." and