8. Roman cement.

9. Hydraulic lime.

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

11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, grave-stones, and building purposes.

12. Tar, vegetable and mineral.

13. Guano, and other fertilizers, natural or artificial.

14. Ploughs and all other agricultural tools and implements.

15. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing-machines; and separate or extra parts for 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. Waggons, 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. Kettles of iron for making sugar.

32. Moulds for making 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. Lodestones.

43. Hops.

41. Sulphate of quinine.

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

46. Samples of merchandize the duties on which do not exceed 1 dollar.

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 Salvador 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 or manufacture of the United States of America shall impose no additional charges on the importer, nor undue restrictions on the articles imported.

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Salvador at Washington that this action of the Government of Salvador, in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Salvador, and in stipulating for a more complete reciprocity arrangement, 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 Salvador 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 31st day of December, 1891, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 116th.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.

(L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON.

ORDINANCE of the British South Africa Company, regulating Trading and the Delivery of Fire-arms.

[No. 2.]

[July 30, 1891.] In pursuance of the powers for making Ordinances conferred on the British South Africa Company by or under Her Majesty's Charter of the 29th day of October, 1889, and of every other power enabling the Company in that behalf:

It is hereby ordained by the British South Africa Company the reinafter called "the Company") as follows:

1. The limits of this Ordinance shall be Mashonaland, that is to say, Fort Tuli and an area 10 miles round that fort, and the territories north of the 22nd parallel of south latitude, but excluding the territory known as the Disputed Territory lying between the Shashi and Macloutsie Rivers, and all territories belonging to the Chief

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Khama of the Bamangwato and the territory known as the district of the Tati.

2. No person shall be allowed to trade at any place within the limits of the Ordinance unless he shall have first obtained a licence for that purpose from the Company.

3. Every such licence shall remain in force for the term stated therein, not exceeding in any case the term of 12 months from the date thereof.

4. Such licence may authorize the holder either to move from place to place for the purpose of his trade, or to establish some fixed trading station at a place to be approved of by the Company.

5. The Company reserves power to refuse to issue any such licence on the original application, or to refuse to issue a fresh licence on the expiration of any preceding licence.

6. In any case in which the renewal of a licence shall be refused by the Company, and in any case in which a licence shall be forfeited as hereinafter provided, the holder of such licence shall be permitted at any time within three months (unless the same shall have become liable to seizure) to remove the materials of any building which he may have erected at his trading station, together with any movable property belonging to him, and failing such removal within the time appointed, such materials and property may be removed and sold by the Company, and the proceeds of such sale shall be applied, as far as may be necessary, to the payment of all expenses incurred, and the balance shall be paid to the owner of the same. No claim to compensation for loss incurred by such removal will be admitted. But such trader will be allowed to continue trading to the end of the three months on paying in advance at the beginning of each of these months the sum of 17.

7. For the purposes of this Ordinance the term "trading" shall be taken to include exchange or barter.

8. The sale or gift or disposal in any way to any native of wine or beer or any spirituous liquor is strictly prohibited. Any person convicted of acting in contravention of this prohibition shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of 201., and in case of a second or any subsequent conviction shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of 407., and in the case of a holder of any trading licence he shall, whether upon a first or any subsequent conviction, be liable also to the forfeiture of his licence, at the discretion of the Company, and all wine, beer, or spirituous liquor that may be found in the possession of the person convicted shall be forfeited. No wine, beer, or spirituous liquor shall be brought within the limits of this Ordinance without the permission, in writing, of the Company first had and obtained, and if any person shall introduce any wine, beer, or spirituous liquors, without having previously obtained the

permission in writing above mentioned, such wine, beer, or spirituous liquor shall be forfeited, and such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201.

9. Any person trading without a licence, or after the expiration. of the term for which it shall have been granted, or in violation of the conditions thereof, or after the same shall have been forfeited, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 101.

10. It shall be lawful for the Company, or any Magistrate within the limits of his jurisdiction, at any time to demand the production, by any person trading, of his licence, and any such person refusing or failing to produce the same shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 107.

11. Any trading station or premises, or waggon, or other vehicle, used or suspected of being used for the purposes of trade, shall at all times be liable to the examination of any person thereto autho rized, in writing, by the Company, or any Magistrate within the limits of his jurisdiction, and the owner or person in charge of any such station, premises, waggon, or vehicle who shall obstruct such examination shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 107.

12. The amount payable for a trading licence shall be 107. for one year, or such other sum as the Company shall from time to time fix. Provided that the Company may in the case of travelling traders make and fix an additional charge of 17. for every vehicle beyond one employed by him in his business. All licences shall expire on the 31st December of each year, or on such other day as shall be fixed by the Company. A licence taken out before the 30th June in any year shall be paid for at the full rate of an annual licence, but if taken out after the 30th June then only one-half of the annual sum will be charged. All licences shall be paid for in full at the time of issue.

13. Every waggon entering within the limits of this Ordinance must do so under authority of a permit signed by such person as shall be authorized by the Company, and any waggon found within. the said limits shall be liable to seizure by the Company or any Magistrate, unless some person in charge or custody of such waggon shall forthwith on demand produce such permit. The persons authorized to sign such permits shall be notified in the "Government Gazette" of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

14. No transfer of any licence will be valid unless the same be approved in writing by some duly authorized officer of the Company.

15. No gunpowder or other explosive, and no cartridges, and no gun, pistol, or other fire-arms, and no lock, stock, barrel, or any other part of any gun, pistol, or other firc-arms, and no percussion caps, shall be brought within the limits of this Ordinance, without

the permission, in writing, of the Company or of a Magistrate first had and obtained; and if any person shall bring any of the said articles within the said limits, without having previously obtained the permission in writing above mentioned, such article or articles shall be forfeited, and such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100l., or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding two years.

16. Any person applying for any such permission as aforesaid shall do so in writing, setting forth the place to which it is intended to take the articles described in such application, and no officer of the Company or Magistrate shall grant any such permission as aforesaid to any person to bring any of the articles aforesaid within the said limits until he shall have transmitted such written application with his report thereon to the Administrator in Mashonaland, and shall have received the authority of that officer to grant the permission sought.

17. No person shall, within the limits of this Ordinance, supply to any native any gun, pistol, or other fire-arm, or any lock, stock, barrel, or other part of a gun, pistol, or other fire-arm, or any percussion caps, or any gunpowder or other explosive, or any cartridges, or any lead or other material for bullets, or shot, without the permission, in writing, of the Company or of a Magistrate, under a penalty not exceeding 1007., or under pain of imprisonment for any period not exceeding two years. The Company shall not nor shall any officer of the Company or any Magistrate be bound to assign any reason for refusing to sanction any such supply.

18. Within so much of the limits of this Ordinance as is comprised within Article VIII of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1889-90, the provisions of that Article and of Article IX of the said General Act shall be observed in accordance with any regulations which may from time to time be framed and published by Her Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa by notice in the "Government Gazette" of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The aforesaid Articles are set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance.

19. Any penalties imposed by this Ordinance may be sued for before the Administrator in Mashonaland, or a Magistrate having jurisdiction, and all such penalties may be recovered by the seizure and sale of any property belonging to the person convicted, and one-half of the penalties recovered under this Ordinance shall in each case be paid to the person on whose information the conviction shall have been obtained, and the balance shall be paid to the Company. Upon non-payment of any such fine or penalty the person liable to make payment thereof shall (where no other term of imprisonment is by law prescribed) be subject to be imprisoned