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They shall also have the privilege of touching and trading, buying and selling 

 fish and oil, and procuring supplies in Newfoundland, conforming to the Harbor 

 Regulations, but without other charge than the payment of such light, harbor, 

 and customs dues as are, or may be, levied on Newfoundland fishing-vessels. 



Art. II. Codfish, cod oil, seal oil, whale oil, unmanufactured whalebone, seal- 

 skins, herrings, salmon, trout, and salmon-trout, lobsters, cod roes, tongues, and sounds, 

 being the produce of the fisheries carried on by the fishermen of Newfoundland, and 

 ores of metals, the product of Newfoundland mines, and slates from the quarry un- 

 trimmed, shall be admitted into the United States free of duty. Also all packages 

 in which the said fish and oils may be exported shall be admitted free of duty. It 

 is understood, however, that unsalted or fresh codfish are not included in the pro- 

 visions of this Article. 



Art. III. The Ofiicer of Customs at the Newfoundland port where the vessel 

 clears shall give to the master of the vessel a sworn certificate that the fish shipped were 

 the produce of the fisheries carried on by the fishermen of Newfoundland, which certifi- 

 cate shall be countersigned by the Consul or Consular Agent of the United States. 



Art. IV. When this Convention shall come into operation, and during the con- 

 tinuance thereof, the following articles imported into the Colony of Newfoundland 

 from the United States shall be admitted free of duty: 



Agricultural implements and machinery imported by Agricultural Societies for 

 the promotion of agriculture. 



Cranes, derricks, fire clay, fire brick, rock drills, rolUng mills, crushing mills, separa- 

 tors, drill steel, machinery of every description for mining used within the mine proper 

 or at the surface of the mine, smelting machinery of all kinds when imported directly by 

 persons engaged in mining, or to be used in their mining operations and not for sale. 



Brick machines. 



Dynamite, detonators, blasting powder, and fuse. 



Raw cotton and cotton yam. 



Com for the manufacture of brooms and whisks. 



Chair cane, unmanufactured. 



Cotton seed oil, oUve oil, boracic acid, acetic acid, preservantine, when imported 

 by manufacturers to be used in the preservation of fish or fish-glue. 



Hemp, hemp yam, coir yam, sisal, manila, jute, flax, and tow. 



Indian com. 



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 imported to be used 

 in the manufacture of maniures. 



Lines and twines used in connection with the fisheries, not including sporting tackle. 



Ores to be used as flux. 



Gas engines when protected by patent. 



Plows, harrows, reaping, raking, potato-digging, and seed-sowing machines when 

 imported by those engaged in agriculture, and not for sale. 



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

 machinery, viz.: Router, beveling, 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 tj^jes, printers' ink, when imported by 

 bond fide printers for use in their business. 



