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 deg., 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 deg., 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.