By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves and the United States of America have concluded on November 19, 1902, an Additional and Amendatory Agreement to the Commercial Agreement of May 22, 1899, between the same High Contracting Parties, entered into in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, which Additional and Amendatory Agreements is in the English and Portuguese texts, word for word as follows:
The President of the United States of America and His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, finding it expedient to amend the Commercial Agreement between the two countries, signed at Washington on the 22nd day of May, 1899, have named for this purpose their respective Plenipotentiaries, to wit:
- The President of the United States of America, the Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, and
- His Most Faithful Majesty, the Viscount de Alte, His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington;
Who, after having communicated each to the other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following additional and amendatory Articles to be taken as part of the said Agreement:
Article I.
The High Contracting Parties mutually agree that the provisions of the said Agreement shall apply also to the Island of Porto Rico.
Article II.
This Additional and Amendatory Agreement shall be ratified by His Most Faithful Majesty so soon as possible, and upon official notice thereof the President of the United States shall issue his Proclamation giving full effect to the same. From and after the date of such Proclamation this Agreement shall take effect, and shall continue in force during the continuance in force of the said Commercial Agreement signed May 22, 1899.
Done in duplicate in English and Portuguese texts at Washington this nineteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and two.
John Hay [seal.]
vlsconde de alte [seal.]
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, have caused the said Additional and Amendatory Agreement to be made public, to the end that the same may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
By the President:
Elihu Root
Secretary of State.