Whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic at Washington has communicated to the special plenipotentiary of the United States the fact that, in reciprocity and compensation 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 the Dominican Republic will by due legal enactment admit, from and after September 1, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of the Dominican Republic the articles or merchandise named in the following schedules, on the terms stated therein, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly from the ports of said States: 

  SCHEDULE A.

  Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican Republic: 

   1.  Animals, live.

   2.  Meats of all kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked.

   3.  Corn or maize, corn meal, and starch.

   4.  Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.

   5.  Hay, bran, and straw for forage.

   6.  Trees, plants, vines, and seeds, and grains of all kinds for
      propagation.

   7.  Cotton-seed oil and meal cake of same.

   8.  Tallow, in cake or melted, and oil for machinery, subject to
      examination and proof respecting the use of said oil.

   9.  Resin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

  10.  Manures, natural and artificial.

  11.  Coal, mineral.

  12.  Mineral waters, natural and artificial.

  13.  Ice.

  14.  Machines, including steam engines and those of all other kinds,
      and parts of the same, implements and tools for agricultural,
      mining, manufacturing, industrial, and scientific purposes,
      including carts, wagons, handcarts, and wheelbarrows, and parts
      of the same.

  15.  Material for the construction and equipment of railways.

  16.  Iron, cast and wrought, and steel, in pigs, bars, rods, plates,
      beams, rafters, and other similar articles for the construction
      of buildings, and in wire, nails, screws, and pipes.

  17.  Zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets,
      asbestus, tar paper, tiles, slate, and other material for roofing.

  18.  Copper in bars, plates, nails, and screws.

  19.  Copper and lead pipe.

  20.  Bricks, fire bricks, cement, lime, artificial stone, paving tiles,
      marble and other stones in rough, dressed or polished, and other
      earthy materials used in building.

  21.  Windmills.

  22.  Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks, staples, nails, and
      similar articles used in the construction of fences.

  23.  Telegraph wire and telegraphic, telephonic, and electrical
      apparatus of all kinds for communication and illumination.