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Raw cotton and cotton yarn. 



Corn for the manufacture of brooms and whisks. 



Chair cane, unmanufactured. 



Cotton seed oil, olive oil, boracic acid, acetic acid, preservantine, 

 when imported by manufacturers to be used in the preservation of 

 fish or fish-glue. 



Hemp, hemp yarn, coir yarn, sisal, manilla, jute, flax, and tow. 



Indian corn. 



Oil cake, oil cake meal, cotton seed cake, cotton seed meal, pease 

 meal, bran, and other preparations for cattle feed. 



Manures and fertilizers of all kinds, and sulphuric acid when im- 

 ported to be used in the manufacture of manures. 



Lines and twines used in connection with the fisheries, not includ- 

 ing sporting tackle. 



Ores to be used as flux. 



Gas engines when protected by patent. 



Ploughs, harrows, reaping, raking, potatoe-digging, and seed-sow- 

 ing machines when imported by those engaged in agriculture, and not 

 for sale. 



Engravers' plates of steel, polished, for engraving thereon ; photo- 

 engraving machinery, viz. : Router, bevelling, and squaring machines, 

 screen-holders, cross line screens, and chemicals for use in engraving, 

 wood for blocking, engraving tools, and process plates. 



Printing presses, printing paper, printing types, printers' ink, 

 when imported by bond fide printers for use in their business. 



Salt, in bulk, when imported for use in the fisheries ; and the duties 

 to be levied and collected upon the following enumerated merchan- 

 dize imported into the Colony of Newfoundland from the United 

 States shall not exceed the following amounts, viz.: 



Flour 25 cents per barrel. 



Pork 1 dol. 50c. per barrel of 200 Ibs. 



Bacon and hams, tongues, smoked beef, 

 and sausage? 2J cents per Ib. or 2 dol. 50c. per 112 Ibs. 



Beef, pigs' heads, hocks, and feet, salt- 

 ed and cured 1 dollar per barrel of 200 Ibs. 



Indian nieal 20 cents per barrel. 



Peas 30 cents per barrel. 



Oatmeal 30 cents per barrel of 200 Ibs. 



Rice i cent per Ib. 



Kerosene oil , 6 cents per gallon. 



ARTICLE V. 



It is understood that if any reduction is made by the Colony of 

 Newfoundland, at any time during the term of this Convention, in 

 the rate of duty upon the articles named in Article IV of this Con- 

 vention, coming from any other Country, the said reduction shall 

 apply to the United States, and that no heavier duty shall be imposed 

 on articles coming from the United States than is imposed on such 

 articles coming from elsewhere. 



ARTICLE VI. 



The present Convention shall be duly ratified by His Britannic 

 Majesty and by the President of the United States of America, by 



