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Contracting Parties have signed the present Treaty in duplicate, in
English and in French, and have attached thereto their seals.
Done at Brussels, the 24th day of the month of January, of the
year 1891.

(L.S.) EDWIN H. TERRELL
(L.S.) EDM. VAN EETVELDE.

PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States, respecting a reciprocal Commercial Arrangement between the United States and Brazil.-Washington, February 5, 1891.

WHEREAS pursuant to section 3 of the Act of Congress approved the 1st October, 1890 [Chap. 1244], 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 the 1st April, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether national, State, or municipal, of the articles or merchandize named in the following Schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America :

Wheat.

1.-Schedule of Articles to be admitted free into Brazil.

Wheat flour.

Corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof, including corn meal and starch.

Rye, rye flour, buckwheat, buckwheat flour, and barley.

Potatoes, beans, and peas.

Hay and oats.

Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams.

Fish, salted, dried, or pickled.

Cotton-seed oil.

Coal, anthracite and bituminous.

Rosin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

Agricultural tools, implements, and machinery.

Mining and mechanical tools, implements, and machinery, including stationary and portable engines, and all machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes except sewing-machines.

Instruments and books for the arts and sciences.

Railway construction material and equipment.

And that the Government of Brazil has, by legal enactment, further authorized the admission into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, with a reduction of 25 per cent. of the duty designated on the respective article in the Tariff now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether national, State, or municipal, of the articles or merchandize named in the following Schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America :

2.-Schedule of Articles to be admitted into Brazil with a Reduction of Duty of 25 per cent.

Lard, and substitutes therefor.

Bacon hams.

Butter and cheese.

Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruit, and vegetables.

Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing.

Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing free Schedule.

Leather, and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes.

Lumber, timber, and the manufactures of wood, including cooperage, furniture of all kinds, waggons, carts, and carriages.

Manufactures of rubber.

And that the Government of Brazil has further provided 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 Schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported;

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 5th day of February, 1891, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 115th.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.

(L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON.

ACT of Congress of the United States, relating to the Treaty of Reciprocity with the Hawaiian Islands.

[Chap. 534.]

[March 3, 1891.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that nothing in the Act approved the 1st October, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," shall be held to repeal or impair the provisions of the Convention respecting commercial reciprocity concluded the 30th January, 1875,* with the King of the Hawaiian Islands, and extended by the Convention proclaimed the 9th November, 1887 ;† and the provisions of said Convention shall be in full force and effect as if said Act had not passed.

Approved, March 3, 1891.

ACT of the State of Kansas, in regard to Aliens, and to restrict their Rights to acquire and hold Real Estate, and to provide for the disposition of the Lands now owned by non-resident

Aliens.

[March 6, 1891.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

§ 1. That a non-resident alien, firm of aliens, or corporation incorporated under the laws of any foreign country, shall not be capable of acquiring title to or taking or holding any lands or real estate in this State by descent, devise, purchase, or otherwise,

Vol. LXVI, page 112.

+ Vol. LXXVIII, page 804.

except that the heirs of aliens who have heretofore acquired lands in this State under the laws thereof, and the heirs of aliens who may acquire lands under the provisions of this Act, may take such lands by devise or descent, and hold the same for the space of three years, and no longer, if such alien at the time of so acquiring such lands is of the age of 21 years; and if not 21 years of age, then for the term of five years from the time of so acquiring such lands; and if, at the end of the time herein limited, such lands so acquired by such alien heirs have not been sold to bona fide purchasers for value, or such alien heirs have not become actual residents of this State, the same shall revert and escheat to the State of Kansas the same as the lands of other aliens under the provisions of this Act: Provided, that minor aliens actually residing in the United States may acquire title to lands in this State by purchase, and hold the same for the term of six years after they might, under the Naturalization Laws of the United States, have declared their intentious to become citizens of the United States; and if at the expiration of said term of six years said aliens have not become citizens of the United States, the lands so acquired by them by purchase shall revert and escheat to the State, under the provisions of this Act; and it shall be the duty of the County Attorney of the county in which the said lands are situated to enforce forfeitures of all lands mentioned in this section in the same manner as pointed out in this Act for other forfeitures.

§ 2. That no corporation or association, more than 20 per cent. of the stock of which is or may be owned by any person or persons, corporation, or association, not citizens of the United States, or of some District or Teritory thereof, shall hereafter acquire, hold, or own any real estate in the State of Kansas.

$ 3. Any alien resident of the United States who shall declare his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States in accordance with the Naturalization Laws thereof, and every alien female who shall in good faith become an actual resident of the United States, shall thereupon be authorized and enabled to take and hold lands and real estate of any kind whatsoever, to him or her and his or her heirs and assigns for ever, and may, during six years thereafter, sell, assign, mortgage, devise, and dispose of the same in any manner as he or she might or could do if he or she were a naturalborn citizen of the United States: Provided that, in the case of an alien male, he shall, at the time of acquiring such lands, cause to be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county in which such lands are situated a certified copy of his said declaration to become such citizen; and in case of an alien female, her affidavit of the fact that she is in good faith an actual resident of the United States shall be so filed; but no such alien, unless he or

she be an actual resident of this State, shall have power to lease or devise any real estate which he or she may take or hold by virtue of this provision.

§ 4. If any alien who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen shall not become a naturalized citizen of the United States within six years after the declaration of his intention, and be living, shall not have sold said real estate to purchasers thereof for value and in good faith, such real estate acquired by him under authority of this Act shall revert to, escheat and become the property of the State of Kansas.

$5. Any real estate held or owned in violation of this Act shall be forfeited to the State of Kansas; and it shall be the duty of the County Attorney of any county in which such real estate is situated to enforce such forfeiture in a civil action brought in the name of the State as plaintiff, the same to be commenced, proceeded with, and disposed of in the same manner as other civil actions affecting real estate. The Court, upon the application of the Attorney and the presentation of a verified petition in proper form, shall appoint a receiver in any such action, who, upon being qualified as provided by law, shall have the usual powers of receivers in actions affecting real estate.

$6. If upon the final hearing of such action the Court shall find that any portion of the real estate described in the petition is held or owned in violation of this Act, the Court shall adjudge such real estate forfeited to the State; and shall order the same appraised, sold, and conveyed by the Sheriff in parcels not exceeding 160 acres each, in the same manner provided by law for the sale of real estate upon execution.

$ 7. Upon the confirmation of such sale, the proceeds thereof, together with any moneys realized therefrom by the receiver, shall be applied to the payment of the costs of such action, including such allowance to the receiver for his services as the Court shall find to be just, and an allowance of 10 per cent. of the proceeds of such sale to the County Attorney for his services; and the residue of the money so realized shall be paid to the order of such defendant or defendants as the Court shall find to have been the owner of said real estate at the time of such forfeiture: Provided that, if the residue of said money shall not be paid to the persons entitled thereto within thirty days from the date of any such judgment, the same shall be paid into the Treasury of the State of Kansas, where it shall remain subject to the order of the person or persons adjudged to be entitled thereto.

§ 8. Any alien, non-resident of the United States, who owns land in this State at the time this Act takes effect, shall have the right and power to dispose of the same during his lifetime to bond

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