UNITED STATES. 



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STATUTES. 



ACT OP AUGUST 5, 1854. 



(10 Stat. L., c. 260) 



An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between the United States and Great 

 Britain, signed on the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. 



Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the 

 President of the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that 

 the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and the Provincial Par- 

 liaments of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Ed- 

 ward's Island, have passed laws on their part to give full effect to the 

 provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Brit- 

 ain, signed on the fifth of June last, he is hereby authorized to issue 

 his proclamation, declaring that he has such evidence, and thereupon, 

 from the date of such proclamation, the following articles, being the 

 growth and produce of the said provinces of Canada, New Bruns- 

 wick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island; to wit: 



Grain, flour, and breadstuffs of all kinds; animals of all kinds; 

 fresh, smoked, and salted meats; cotton-wool; seeds and vegetables; 

 undried fruits; dried fruits; fish of all kinds; products of fish and all 

 other creatures living in the water ; poultry ; eggs ; hides, furs, skins 

 or tails undressed; stone or marble in its crude or unwrought state; 

 slate; butter, cheese, tallow; lard; horns; manures; ores of metals of 

 all kinds; coal; pitch, tar, turpentine; ashes; timber and lumber of 

 all kinds, round, hewed, and sawed, unmanufactured in whole or in 

 part; fire-wood, plants, shrubs, and trees; pelts; wool; fish oil; rice; 

 broom-corn and bark; gypsum, ground or unground: hewn or 

 wrought or unwrought burr or grindstones; dye-stuffs; flax, hemp, 

 and tow, unmanufactured; unmanufactured tobacco; rags; 



Shall be introduced in to the United States free of duty so long as 

 the said treaty shall remain in force subject, however, to be sus- 

 pended in relation to the trade with Canada, on the condition men- 

 tioned in the fourth article of the said treaty : And all the other pro- 

 visions of the said treaty shall go into effect, and be observed on the 

 part of the United States. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the island of 

 Newfoundland shall give its consent to the application of the stipu- 

 lations and provisions of the said treaty to that Province, and the 

 Legislature thereof and the Imperial Parliament shall pass the neces- 

 sary laws for that purpose, the above enumerated articles shall be 

 admitted free of duty from that province in to the United States, 



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