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THE CUBA REVIEW 



girders, gutters, angles, tiles, metal names and 

 plates, fabricated or shipped in an unfinished 

 state; old iron and old steel; manganese of 

 iron, tool steel, steel of high tension, amalgam 

 of steel and iron, machinery tools, materials 

 for hardening steel; fertilizers, including 

 stearine of cattle and sheep, nitrate of soda, 

 artificial fertilizers, potato fertilizers, salts of 

 potassium, mixed earths, potash, cyanide, 

 phosphoric acid, rock phosphate, super- 

 phosphate, chlorate of potash, bone fertilizer, 

 bone powder, crushed bone, dried blood, 

 ammonia and salts of ammonia, acid phos- 

 phates, guano, hard wood ashes, lampblack, 

 anhydrate of ammonia, aeronautical ma- 

 chines and instruments, their parts and ac- 

 cessories, nitrate of potash, saltpetre or nitrate, 

 turpentine, alcohol, sulphur, sulphuric acid 

 and their salts, benzol and its products, car- 

 bolic acid audits products, "tolul," and its 

 products; mercury and its salts; cynaides; 

 and films, carrier pigeons and other anti- 

 air-craft instruments, apparatus and accessor- 

 ies; every apparatus of wireless telegraphy and 

 its accessories, optical glasses and reflectors, 

 soap and soap powders; every machine or 

 motor that operates by steam, gas, electricity 

 and other motive power and their accessories; 

 machinery for the purpose of working in 

 wood or metals; caps for petroleum wells, in- 

 struments and machinery for drilUng petro- 

 leum wells and their accessories; steam- 

 boilers, turbines, condensers, pumps and 

 their accessories, every part of electrical ma- 

 chines, crucibles every "carborundum" and 

 artificial polishers, copper, including ingots, 

 of copper bars, rods, plates, tubes, laminas, 

 wires and waste copper; lead and white lead; 

 tin, brass, made up tins and everything that 

 contains tin; nickel; aluminum, zinc, graphite 

 and platinum, paper for periodicals, paper for 

 printing, wood pulp, and wood fiber or cellu- 

 lose, white ash, spruce, walnut, mahogany, 

 oak, birch and diamantes industrials. 



This decree will become effective upon pub- 

 Ucation in the Ojjicial Ga::ettc, and the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury is authorized to dictate 

 whatever orders he may consider appropriate 

 for the better carrying out of the decree. 



Given at the finca "El Chico," in the 

 Municipality of .Marianao, the 4th day of 

 October, 1917. 



(Signed) M. G. MENOCAL, 



President. 

 LEOPOLDO CANCIO, 



Secretary oj the Treasury. 



EXPORT LICENSES FOR SMALL SHIPMENTS 

 OF SUGAR 



The War Trade Board has ascertained that 

 exporters in the United States are in many 

 cases seeking to take advantage of the regula- 

 tion permitting the exportation of 25 barrels 

 of sugar or less in any single shipment without 

 requiring individual license?. It has been 

 known for some time that a few exporters were 

 doing tliis, and it was thought that this 

 might be prevented by calling the attention 

 of these exporters to the fact that they were 

 making themselves amenable to the law. The 

 practice has not been discontinued, and there- 

 fore until otherwise ordered by the board, no 

 shipments of sugar, except those destined to 

 Canada and Newfoundland, will be allowed to 

 leave the country without a specific export 

 license for each sliipment. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



A new Bureau has been added to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, known as the Bureau 

 of Agricultural Sanitation, with a Bureau 

 Chief drawing a salary of $3,000 a year, be- 

 sides subordinate personnel. The new Bureau 

 is to take care of the country's vegetable life, 

 see that no plant diseases are introduced into 

 the country through importation of trees and 

 shrubs from abroad, and in general see that 

 the country's vegetable and plant life are 

 kept in a healthy state. 



SUGAR TAX 



A regulation has been drawn up to be sub- 

 mitted first to the Secretary of the Treasury 

 and afterwards to the President for his sig- 

 nature, to fix the amount of the taxes to be 

 paid by the sugar planters on the coming har- 

 vest. 



In the regulation will be given full direc- 

 tions to the administrators of taxes in the dif- 

 ferent parts of the RepubUc where th?re are 

 sugar mills as to the records that are to be 

 kept of the sugar produced in the localities 

 under their jurisdiction. 



At the end of the harvest a general balance 

 will be made of the total production. 



BARACOA 



The municipal council of Baracoa has sub- 

 mitted to the Department of Government a 

 petition for an appropriation of $29,269.47 for 

 repairing damage caused by the recent insur- 

 rection. 



