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Ben Harrison: “Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister…”

On the recordDecember 30, 1891
Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Salvador at Washington that this action of the Government of Salvador in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Salvador and in stipulating for a more complete reciprocity arrangement is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act:
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana
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Proclamation 315—Modifications of the Tariff Laws of Salvador

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