By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Government of Spain has, by royal decree taking effect September 1, 1906, extended to the products and manufactures of the United States the rates of duty now fixed in the second or minimum column of the Spanish tariff and has made applicable to the United States every decrease of duty accorded by Spain by law and in the commercial pacts now made, or which in future shall be made, with other nations (exception being made only of the special advantages conceded to Portugal), by which action, in the judgment of the President, reciprocal and equivalent concessions are established in favor of the said products and manufactures of the United States:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the third section of the tariff act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, do hereby suspend, during the continuance in force of the said concessions by the Government of Spain, the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the first section of said act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being the products of the soil or industry of Spain; and do declare in place thereof the following rates of duty provided in the third section of said act to be in force and effect on and after September 1, 1906, of which the officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice, namely:
Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.
Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.
Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs.
Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[Page 1342]By the President:
Alvey A.
Adee,
Acting Secretary of
State.