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On the recordApril 15, 1888
there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed the vessels of any foreign country
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Proclamation 284—Suspending Tonnage Duties on Vessles From the Island of Guadeloupe

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