ARTICLE X. Each Government shall pay the expenses of its members of the Joint Commission in the investigation referred to in the preceding Article. ARTICLE XI. The decision of the tribunal shall, if possible, be made within three months from the close of the argument on both sides. It shall be made in writing and dated, and shall be signed by the Arbitrators who may assent to it. The decision shall be in duplicate, one copy whereof shall be delivered to the Agent of the United States for his Government, and the other copy shall be delivered to the Agent of Great Britain for his Government. ARTICLE XII. Each Government shall pay its own Agent and provide for the proper remuneration of the counsel employed by it and of the Arbitrators appointed by it, and for the expense of preparing and submitting its case to the tribunal. All other expenses connected with the Arbitration shall be defrayed by the two Governments in equal moieties. ARTICLE XIII. The Arbitrators shall keep an accurate record of their proceedings, and may appoint and employ the necessary officers to assist them. ARTICLE XIV. The High Contracting Parties engage to consider the result of the proceedings of the tribunal of arbitration, as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all the questions referred to the Arbitrators. ARTICLE XV. The present treaty shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty; and the ratification shall be exchanged either at Washington or at London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. JAMES G. BLAINE. [SEAL.] And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of London, on the 7th day of May, 1892: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, as amended, to the end that the same, and every article and clause thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. 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 ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety[SEAL.] two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. BENJ. HARRISON. RECIPROCITY AGREEMENTS WITH BRAZIL. 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 the United States of Brazil 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 wit, sugars, molasses, coffee, and hides, to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; And whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in due reciprocity for and consideration of 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 Brazil has, by legal enactment, authorized the admission, from and after April 1, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America. [Here follows schedule of articles.] And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington that this action of the Government of Brazil in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America, 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 law of Brazil 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. Done at the city of Washington this fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: BENJ. HARRISON. JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. [Similar proclamations were issued reciting reciprocal agreements as follows: Dominican Republic, August 1, 1891; Spain (for Cuba and Puerto Rico), July 31, 1891; Labrador, December 31, 1891; Germany, February 1, 1892; Great Britain (for certain islands), February 1, 1892; Nicaragua, March 12, 1892; Honduras, April 30, 1892; Guatemala, May 18, 1892. Proclamations were also issued suspending the free admission into the United States of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides from Venezuela, Haiti, and Colombia.] DEATH OF GEN. JOHN C. FREMONT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 14, 1890. The death of John C. Fremont, a major-general on the retired list of the Army of the United States, is an event calling for some appropriate expression of the national sorrow and of a grateful appreciation of his public services. His career was full of adventurous and useful discovery, and of devoted and conspicuous service both in civil and military affairs. He opened the passes of the Rocky Mountains and gave value to his discoveries by aiding to create an American State on the Pacific coast. It is therefore ordered that the National flag be displayed at halfmast upon all the buildings of the Executive Departments in this city until after the funeral shall have taken place. By direction of the President: E. W. HALFORD, Private Secretary. DEATH OF GEORGE BANCROFT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 19, 1891. The death of George Bancroft, which occurred in the city of Washington on Saturday, January 17, at 3:40 o'clock p. m., removes from among the living one of the most distinguished Americans. As an expression of the public loss and sorrow, the flags of all the Executive Departments at Washington and of the public buildings in the cities through which the funeral party is to pass, will be placed at half-mast on to-morrow and until the body of this eminent statesman, scholar, and historian shall rest in the State that gave him to his country and to the world. By the direction of the President: ELIJAH W. HALFORD, DEATH OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN. To the People of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, The President, with a profound feeling of sorrow, announces the death of Hannibal Hamlin, at one time Vice-President of the United States, who died at Bangor, Me., on the evening of Saturday, July 4. Few men in this country have filled more important and more distinguished public positions than Mr. Hamlin, and in recognition of his many eminent and varied services, and as an expression of the great respect and reverence which are felt for his memory, it is ordered that the National flag be displayed at half-mast upon the public buildings of the United States on the day of his funeral. BENJ. HARRISON. By the President: WILLIAM F. WHARTON, Acting Secretary of State. DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT HAYES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., January 18, 1893. To the People of the United States: sorrow. The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at 11 p. m. yesterday is an event the announcement of which will be received with very general and very sincere His public service extended over many years and over a wide range of official duty. of official duty. He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head. of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career. As an expression of the public sorrow, it is ordered that the Executive Mansion and the several Executive Departments at Washington be draped in mourning and the flags thereon placed at half-staff, for a period of thirty days, and that on the day of the funeral all public business in the Departments be suspended and that suitable military and naval honors under the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy be rendered on that day. Done at the city of Washington this 18th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety[SEAL.] three and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventeenth. By the President: JOHN W. FOSTER, BENJ. HARRISON. Secretary of State. |