Rutherford Hayes said...

I submit the subject to your favorable consideration and recommend that a suitable appropriation be made to enable this ...

by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of...

Whereas satisfactory evidence has been given to me by the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China that no discrim...

I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, ...