A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison

Chapter XIX: Section 1956: , Revised Statutes, chapter 3, Title XXIII, enacts that (1)

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No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or
other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory or in
the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall for each
offense be fined not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned
not more than six months, or both; and all vessels, their tackle,
apparel, furniture, and cargo, found engaged in violation of this
section shall be forfeited; but the Secretary of the Treasury shall
have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or
other fur-bearing animal, except fur seals, under such regulations as
he may prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to prevent
the killing of any fur seal and to provide for the execution of the
provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor
shall he grant any special privileges under this section.

SEC. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion
of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea; and it shall be the
duty of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his
proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month at
least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United
States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against
entering said waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of
said section; and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United
States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and
seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation
of the laws of the United States therein.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, pursuant to the above-recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Bering Sea within the dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956, Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargoes, will be seized and forfeited.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed,

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of February, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Nicaragua 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 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Nicaragua at Washington 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 Nicaragua will by due legal enactment admit free of all duty, from and after April 15, 1892, into all the ports of entry of Nicaragua the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product of the United States:

SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES WHICH THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA WILL ADMIT FREE OF
ALL KIND OF DUTY.

1. Animals, live.

2. Barley, Indian corn, wheat, oats, rye, and rice.

3. Seeds of all kinds for agriculture and horticulture.

4. Live plants of all kinds.

5. Corn meal.

6. Starch.

7. Beans, potatoes, and all other vegetables, fresh or dried.

8. Fruits, fresh or dried.

9. Hay, bran, and straw for forage.

10. Cotton-seed oil and all other products of said seed.

11. Tar, resin, and turpentine.

12. Asphalt, crude or manufactured in blocks.

13. Quicksilver for mining purposes.

14. Coal, mineral or animal.

15. Fertilizers for land.

16. Lime and cement.

17. Wood and lumber, in the rough or prepared for building purposes.

18. Houses of wood or iron.

19. Marble, in the rough or dressed, for fountains, gravestones, and
building purposes.

20. Tools and implements for agricultural and horticultural purposes.

21. Wagons, carts, and handcarts.

22. Iron and steel, in rails for railroads and other similar uses, and
structural iron and steel for bridges and building purposes.

23. Wire, for fences, with or without barbs, clamps, posts, clips, and
other accessories of wire, not less than 3 lines in diameter.

24. Machinery of all kinds for agricultural purposes, arts, and trades,
and parts of such machinery.

25. Motors of steam or animal power.

26. Forgers, water pumps of metal, pump hose, sledge hammers, drills for
mining purposes, iron piping with its keys and faucets, crucibles
for melting metals, iron water tanks, and lightning rods.

27. Roofs of galvanized iron, gutters, ridging, clamps, and screws for
the same.

28. Printing materials.

29. Books, pamphlets, and other printed matter, and ruled paper for
printed music, printing paper in sheets not less than 29 by 20
inches.

30. Geographical maps or charts and celestial and terrestrial spheres
or globes.

31. Surgical and mathematical instruments.

32. Stones and fire bricks for smelting furnaces.

33. Vessels and boats of all kinds, fitted together or in parts.

34. Gold and silver in bullion, bars, or coin.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles
named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if
they are usual and proper for the purpose.

And that the Government of Nicaragua has further stipulated that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedule are the product of the United States of America shall impose no undue restrictions on the importer nor additional charges on the articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Nicaragua at Washington that this action of the Government of Nicaragua in granting freedom of duties to the products of the United States of America on their importation into Nicaragua is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above-stated modifications of the tariff laws of Nicaragua to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 12th day of March, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas in section 3 of an act passed by the Congress of the United States entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890, it was provided as follows:

That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing
the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the 1st
day of January, 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be
satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting
sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of
such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural
or other products of the United States which, in view of the free
introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the
United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable,
he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by
proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the
free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the
production of such country for such time as he shall deem just; and in
such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected,
and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or
exported from such designated country--

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact to be that the Government of Colombia does impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production of Colombia shall be suspended from and after this 15th day of March, 1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and exactions are removed by Colombia and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States; and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or exported from Colombia during such suspension duties as provided by said act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on
their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above No. 13 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 75°, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional
degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test
two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified
by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard of color,
1-3/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
1-5/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard of color, 2 cents per pound.

Molasses testing above 56°, 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled; Angora-goat
skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses' skins, raw or
unmanufactured, and skins, except sheepskins, with the wool on, 1-1/2
cents per pound.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of March, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact to be that the Government of Hayti does impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production of Hayti shall be suspended from and after this 15th day of March, 1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and exactions are removed by Hayti and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States; and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or exported from Hayti during such suspension duties as provided by said act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on
their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above No. 13 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 75°, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound and for every additional
degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test
two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified by
the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugar above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard of color,
1-3/8 cents per pound.

All sugar above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
1-5/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard of color, 2 cents per pound.

Molasses testing above 56°, 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of March, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact to be that the Government of Venezuela does impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production of Venezuela shall be suspended from and after this 15th 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 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or exported from Venezuela during such suspension duties as provided by said act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on
their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified
by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugar above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard of color,
1-3/8 cents per pound.

All sugar above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
1-5/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard of color, 2 cents per pound.

Molasses testing above 56°, 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of March, 1892, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 24 of an act approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes"--

That the President of the United States may from 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 whereas the lands hereinafter described are public and forest bearing, and on the 11th day of February last I issued a proclamation[30] intended to reserve the same as authorized in said act; but as some question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimed being sufficiently definite to cover the lands intended to be reserved:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said reservation more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, do hereby issue this my second proclamation and hereby set apart, reserve, and establish as a public reservation all that tract of land situate in the State of Colorado embraced within the following boundary:

Beginning at the northeast corner of section four (4), township eleven (11) south, range sixty-seven (67) west of the sixth (6th) principal meridian; thence westerly along the second (2d) correction line south between townships ten (10) and eleven (11) south to the northwest corner of section six (6), township eleven (11) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence southerly along the range line between ranges sixty-eight (68) and sixty-nine (69) west to the southwest corner of section eighteen (18), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence westerly along the section line between sections thirteen (13) and twenty-four (24), fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23), fifteen (15) and twenty-two (22), sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21), seventeen (17) and twenty (20), and eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) to the northwest corner of section nineteen (19), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-nine (69) west; thence southerly along the range line between ranges sixty-nine (69) and seventy (70) west to the southwest corner of section thirty-one (31) of said township; thence easterly along the township line between townships thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) south to the quarter-section corner on said township line between section thirty-five (35), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-nine (69) west, and section two (2), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-nine (69) west; thence southerly through the middle of sections two (2), eleven (11), and fourteen (14), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-nine (69) west, to the quarter-section corner on the section line between sections fourteen (14) and twenty-three (23) of said township and range; thence easterly along said section line to the northeast corner of section twenty-three (23) of said township and range; thence southerly along the section line to the quarter-section corner on said line between sections twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24) of said township and range; thence easterly through the middle of section twenty-four (24) to the quarter-section corner on the range line between section nineteen (19), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-eight (68) west, and section twenty-four (24), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-nine (69) west; thence southerly along said range line to the southwest corner of section thirty-one (31), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence easterly along the third (3d) correction line south between townships fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) south to the southeast corner of section thirty-four (34), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence northerly along the section line between sections thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27), to the point for the quarter-section corner on the section line between sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence westerly to a point for the legal center of section twenty-one (21) of said township and range; thence southerly to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight (28) of said township and range; thence westerly along the section line between sections twenty-eight (28) and thirty-three (33), twenty-nine (29) and thirty-two (32), thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), to the northwest corner of section thirty-one (31) of said township and range; thence northerly on the range line between ranges sixty-seven (67) and sixty-eight (68) west to the southwest corner of section six (6) of said township and range; thence easterly along the section line to the southeast corner of section six (6) of said township and range; thence southerly along the section line to the southwest corner of section eight (8) of said township and range; thence easterly along the section line to the southeast corner of section ten (10) of said township and range; thence northerly along the section line between sections ten (10) and eleven (11), two (2) and three (3), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-seven (67) west, to the northeast corner of section three (3) of said township and range; thence westerly along the township line between townships fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) south to the northwest corner of section three (3), township fifteen (15) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence northerly along the section line between sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34), twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), to the northeast corner of section twenty-one (21), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence westerly along the section line between sections sixteen (16) and twenty-one (21), seventeen (17) and twenty (20), eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), to the northwest corner of section nineteen (19) of said township and range; thence northerly along the range line between ranges sixty-seven (67) and sixty-eight (68) west to the northeast corner of section one (1), township fourteen (14) south, range sixty-eight (68) west; thence easterly along the township line between townships thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) south to the southeast corner of section thirty-three (33), township thirteen (13) south, range sixty-seven (67) west; thence northerly along the section line between sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34), twenty-seven (27) and twenty-eight (28), twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22), fifteen (15) and sixteen (16), nine (9) and ten (10), and three (3) and four (4) of townships thirteen (13), twelve (12), and eleven (11) south, range sixty-seven (67) west, to the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired, and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith.

_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, settlement, or location was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of March, A.D. 1892, and of the Independence Of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 30: See pp. 260-262.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the third article of the treaty between the United States of America and the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians concluded February 19, 1867, proclaimed May 2, 1867 (15 U.S. Statutes at Large, p, 505), the United States set apart and reserved for certain of said Indians certain lands, particularly described, being situated partly in North Dakota and partly in South Dakota and known as the Lake Traverse Reservation; and

Whereas by agreement made with said Indians residing on said reservation dated December 12, 1889, they conveyed, as set forth in article 1 thereof, to the United States all their title and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of the reservation set apart as aforesaid remaining after the allotments shall have been made, which are provided for in article 4 of the agreement, as follows:

That there shall be allotted to each individual member of the bands of
Indians parties hereto a sufficient quantity, which, with the lands
heretofore allotted, shall make in each case 160 acres, and in case no
allotment has been made to any individual member of said bands, then
an allotment of 160 acres shall be made to such individual.

And whereas it is provided in article 2 of said agreement--

That the cession, sale, relinquishment, and conveyance of the lands
described in article 1 of this agreement shall not take effect and
be in force until the sum of $342,778.37, together with the sum of
$18,400, shall have been paid to said bands of Indians, as set forth
and stipulated in article 3 of this agreement.

And whereas it is provided in the act of Congress approved March 3, 1891 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 1036-1038), section 30, accepting and ratifying the agreement with said Indians--

That the lands by said agreement ceded, sold, relinquished, and
conveyed to the United States shall immediately, upon the payment
to the parties entitled thereto of their share of the funds made
immediately available by this act, and upon the completion of the
allotments as provided for in said agreement, be subject only to entry
and settlement under the homestead and town-site laws of the United
States, excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of said
lands, which shall be reserved for common-school purposes and be
subject to the laws of the State wherein located: _Provided_, That
patents shall not issue until the settler or entryman shall have paid
to the United States the sum of $2.50 per acre for the land taken up
by such homesteader, and the title to the lands so entered shall remain
in the United States until said money is duly paid by such entryman or
his legal representatives, or his widow, who shall have the right to
pay the money and complete the entry of her deceased husband in her
own name and shall receive a patent for the same.

And whereas payment as required by said act has been made by the United States; and

Whereas allotments as provided for in said agreement, as now appears by the records of the Department of the Interior, will have been made, approved, and completed and all other terms and considerations required will have been complied with on the day and hour hereinafter fixed for opening said lands to settlement:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands embraced in said reservation, saving and excepting the lands reserved for and allotted to said Indians and the lands reserved for other purposes in pursuance of the provisions of said agreement and the said act of Congress ratifying the same and other the laws relating thereto, will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time) on the 15th day of April, A.D. 1892, and not before, be opened to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the terms and conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreements, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The lands to be opened for settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Lake Traverse Reservation opened to settlement by proclamation of the President dated April 11, 1892," and which schedule is made a part hereof.

Warning, moreover, is hereby given that until said lands are opened to settlement as herein provided all persons save said Indians are forbidden to enter upon and occupy the same or any part thereof.

And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that the lands mentioned and included in this proclamation shall be, and the same are, attached to the Fargo and Watertown land districts, in said States, as follows:

1. All that portion of the Lake Traverse Reservation commencing at the northwest corner of said reservation; thence south 12° 2' west, following the west boundary of the reservation, to the new seventh standard parallel, or boundary line between the States of North and South Dakota; thence east, following the new seventh standard parallel to its intersection with the north boundary of said Indian reservation; thence northwesterly with said boundary to the place of beginning, is attached to the Fargo land district, the office of which is now located at Fargo, N. Dak.

2. All that portion of the Lake Traverse Reservation commencing at a point where the new seventh standard parallel intersects the west boundary of said reservation; thence southerly along the west boundary of said reservation to its extreme southern limit; thence northerly along the east boundary of said reservation to Lake Traverse; thence north with said lake to the northeast corner of the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation; thence westerly with the north boundary of said reservation to its intersection with the new seventh standard parallel, or boundary line between the States of North and South Dakota; thence with the new seventh standard parallel to the place of beginning, is attached to the Watertown land district, the office of which is now located at Watertown, S. Dak.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 11th day of April, A.D. 1892, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by a written agreement made on the ---- day of October, 1890, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished, and surrendered all their claim, title, and interest in and to the lands described in article 2 of said agreement as follows, to wit:

Commencing at a point where the Washita River crosses the ninety-eighth
degree of west longitude, as surveyed in the years 1858 and 1871;
thence north on a line with said ninety-eighth degree to the point
where it is crossed by the Red Fork of the Arkansas (sometimes called
the Cimarron River); thence up said river, in the middle of the main
channel thereof, to the north boundary of the country ceded to the
United States by the treaty of June 14, 1866, with the Creek Nation
of Indians; thence west on said north boundary and the north boundary
of the country ceded to the United States by the treaty of March 21,
1866, with the Seminole Indians to the one hundredth degree of west
longitude; thence south on the line of said one hundredth degree to the
point where it strikes the North Fork of the Red River; thence down
said North Fork of the Red River to a point where it strikes the north
line of the Kiowa and Conianclie Reservation; thence east along said
boundary to a point where it strikes the Washita River; thence down
said Washita River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the
place of beginning; and all other lands or tracts of country in the
Indian Territory to which they have or may set up or allege any right,
title, interest, or claim whatsoever.

_Provided_, That every member of said tribes shall have an allotment of 160 acres of land, as in said agreement provided, to be selected within the tract of country so ceded, except land in any part of said reservation now used or occupied for military, agency, school, school-farm, religious, or other public uses, or in sections 16 or 36 in each Congressional township, except, in cases where any Cheyenne or Arapahoe Indian has heretofore made improvements upon and now uses and occupies a part of said sections 16 and 36, such Indian may make his or her selection within the boundaries so prescribed so as to include his or her improvements; and except in that part of the lands by said agreement ceded, now occupied and claimed by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians described as follows, to wit:

Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita
River where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the
same; thence up the middle of the main channel of the said river to
the line of 98° 40' west longitude; thence up said line of 98° 40' due
north to the middle of the main channel of the main Canadian River;
thence down the middle of the main Canadian River to where it crosses
the ninety-eighth meridian; thence due south to the place of beginning.

_And provided_, That said sections 16 and 36 in each Congressional township in said reservation shall not become subject to homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States and finally sold for public-school purposes; and that when the allotments of lands shall have been selected and taken by the members of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes as aforesaid and approved by the Secretary of the Interior the title thereto shall be held in trust for the allottees, respectively, for the period of twenty-five years in the manner and to the extent provided for in the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 388); and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and confirming the said agreement with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, approved March 3, 1891 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 989-1044), section 16--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the * * *
foregoing agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma
Territory shall by operation of law or proclamation of the President
of the United States be opened to settlement they shall be disposed
of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead and
town-site laws, except section 2301 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, which shall not apply: _Provided, however_, That each
settler on said lands shall before making a final proof and receiving
a certificate of entry pay to the United States for the land so taken
by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within five years
from the date of the first original entry, the sum of $1.50 per acre,
one-half of which shall be paid within two years; but the rights
of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and
described in sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid
as aforesaid; and all the lands in Oklahoma are hereby declared to be
agricultural lands, and proof of their nonmineral character shall not
be required as a condition precedent to final entry.

And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians have been made and approved in accordance with law and the provisions of the before-mentioned agreement with them; and

Whereas the lands acquired by the said agreement hereinbefore mentioned have been divided into counties by the Secretary of the Interior, as required by said last-mentioned act of Congress, before the same shall be opened to settlement, and lands have been reserved for county-seat purposes as therein required, as follows, to wit:

For County C, the south one-half of section 19, township 16 north, range 11 west; for County D, the north one-half of section 13, township 18 north, range 17 west; for County E, the south one-half of section 15, township 17 north, range 22 west; for County F, the south one-half of section 8, township 13 north, range 23 west; for County G, the north one-half of section 25, township 13 north, range 17 west; for County H, the south one-half of section 13, township 9 north, range 16 west; and

Whereas it is provided by act of Congress for temporary government of Oklahoma, approved May 2, 1890, section 23 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 92), that there shall be reserved public highways 4 rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the section lines being the center of said highways; but no deduction shall be made where cash payments are provided for in the amount to be paid for each quarter section of land by reason of such reservation; and

Whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I hereby declare, complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned, also an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1892, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1891, and by other of the laws of the United States, and by said agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands hereinbefore described acquired from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians by the agreement aforesaid, saving and excepting the lands allotted to the Indians as in said agreement provided, excepting also the lands hereinbefore described as occupied and claimed by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, or otherwise reserved in pursuance of the provisions of said agreement and the said act of Congress ratifying the same, and other the laws relating thereto, will at the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time), Tuesday, the 19th day of the present month of April, and not before, be opened to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation, Oklahoma Territory, opened to settlement by proclamation of the President."

Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as applicable; and no other lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are opened to settlement under this proclamation, the agreement with the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, or the act ratifying the same.

Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation no person shall be permitted to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person violating this provision shall be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any right thereto, and that the officers of the United States will be required to enforce this provision.

And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that the lands mentioned and included in this proclamation shall be, and the same are, attached to the Western land district, office at Kingfisher, and the Oklahoma land district, office at Oklahoma City, in said Territory of Oklahoma, as follows:

1. All of said lands lying north of the township line between townships 13 and 14 north are attached to the Western land district, the office of which is at Kingfisher, in said Territory.

2. All of said lands lying south of the township line between townships 13 and 14 north are attached to the Oklahoma land district, the office of which is at Oklahoma City, in the said Territory.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 12th day of April, A.D. 1892, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to amend Title LX, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement;" and

Whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require;" and

Whereas in virtue of said section 13 of the aforesaid act of Congress a copyright agreement was signed at Washington on January 15, 1892, in the English and German languages, by the representatives of the United States of America and the German Empire, a true copy of the English version of which agreement is, word for word, as follows:

The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the
German Emperor, King of Prussia, in the name of the German Empire,
being actuated by the desire to extend to their subjects and citizens
the full benefit of the legal provisions in force in both countries
in regard to copyright, have to this end decided to conclude an
agreement and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries:

The President of the United States of America, James G. Blaine,
Secretary of State of the United States;

His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, Alfons Mumm von
Schwarzenstein, his chargé d'affaires near the Government of the United
States of America, who, being duly authorized, have concluded the
following agreement, subject to due ratification:

ARTICLE I. Citizens of the United States of America shall enjoy in
the German Empire the protection of copyright as regards works of
literature and art, as well as photographs, against illegal
reproduction, on the same basis on which such protection is granted
to subjects of the Empire.

ART. II. The United States Government engages in return that the
President of the United States shall, in pursuance of section 13 of
the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, issue the proclamation therein
provided for in regard to the extension of the provisions of that act
to German subjects as soon as the Secretary of State shall have been
officially notified that the present agreement has received the
necessary legislative sanction in the German Empire.

ART. III. This agreement shall be ratified and the ratifications shall
be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

The agreement shall go into operation at the expiration of three weeks
from the date of the exchange of its ratifications, and shall be
applicable only to works not published at the time when it shall have
gone into operation. It shall remain in force until the expiration of
three months from the day on which notice of a desire for the cessation
of its effects shall have been given by one of the contracting parties.

Done in duplicate in the English and German languages, at the city of
Washington, this 15th day of January, 1892.

JAMES G. BLAINE. [SEAL.]
A. v. MUMM. [SEAL.]

And whereas the official notification contemplated by Article II of the said agreement has been received by this Government:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in respect to the subjects of the German Empire.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, the 15th day of April, 1892, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the 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 Honduras 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 in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States:

SCHEDULE OF PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES FROM THE UNITED STATES WHICH THE
REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS WILL ADMIT FREE OF ALL CUSTOMS, MUNICIPAL, AND ANY
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 flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened,
macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin.

7. Coal, mineral.

8. Roman cement.

9. Hydraulic lime.

10. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for melting.

11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones,
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 of all 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 wharves.

20. Apparatus for distilling liquors.

21. Wood of all kinds for building, in trunks or pieces, beams,
rafters, planks, boards, shingles, or flooring.

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. Wagons, carts, and carriages of all kinds.

25. Barrels, casks, and tanks of iron for water.

26. Tubes of iron and all other accessories necessary for water supply.

27. Wire, barbed, and staples for fences.

28. Plates of iron for building purposes.

29. Mineral ores.

30. Kettles of iron for making salt.

31. Sugar boilers.

32. Molds for sugar.

33. Guys for mining purposes.

34. Furnaces and instruments for assaying metals.

35. Scientific instruments.

36. Models of machinery and buildings.

37. Boats, lighters, tackle, anchors, chains, girtlines, sails, and all
other articles for vessels, to be used in the ports, lakes, and
rivers of the Republic.

38. Printing materials, including presses, type, ink, and all other
accessories.

39. Printed books, pamphlets, and newspapers, bound or unbound, maps,
photographs, printed music, and paper for music.

40. Paper for printing newspapers.

41. Quicksilver.

42. Loadstones.

43. Hops.

44. Sulphate of quinine.

45. Gold and silver in bars, dust, or coin.

46. Samples of merchandise the duties on which do not exceed $1.

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