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Article 111. The officers of Customs of the Newfoundland port where the vessels clear 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 certificate shall be countersigned by the Consul or Consular Agent of the United States. Article IV. When this convention shall come into operation, and during the continuance 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, rolling-mills, crushing-mills, separators, 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 yarn ; corn for the manufacture of brooms and whisks; chair-cane, unmanufactured; cottonseed-oil, olive-oil, boracic acid, acetic acid, preservatine, when imported by manufacturers to be used in the preservation of fish or fish-glue ; hemp, hemp-yarn, coir-yarn, sisal, manila, jute, flax, and tow; Indian corn ; oil-cake, oil-cake meal, cottonseed-cake, cottonseed-meal, peasemeal, bran, and other preparations for cattle-feed; manures and fertilisers of all kinds, and sulphuric acid when imported to be used in the manufacture of manures; 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; ploughs, harrows, reaping, raking, ploughing, potato-digging and seed-sowing machines, when imported by those engaged in agriculture and not for sale ; engravers' plates of steel, polished for engraving thereon ; photo-engraving machinery—viz., router, bevelling and squaring machines, screen holders, crossline screens and chemicals for use in engraving, wood for blocking, engraving-tools, and process plates ; printing-presses, printing-paper, printing-types, printers' ink, when imported by bond fide printers for use in their business ; salt, in bulk, when imported for use in the fisheries. And the duties to be levied and collected upon the following enumerated merchandise imported into the Colony of Newfoundland from the United States shall not exceed the following amounts : viz., flour, 25 cents per barrel; pork, 1 dollar 50 cents per barrel of 2001b. ; bacon and hams, tongues, smoked beef, and sausages, 2J cents per pound, or 2 dollars 50 cents per 112 lb. ; beef, pigs' heads, hocks, ami feet, salted and cured, 1 dollar per barrel of 200 lb. ; Indian meal, 20 cents per barrel; peas, 30 cents per barrel; oatmeal, 30 cents per barrel of 2001b. ; rice, J cent per pound ; kerosene oil, 6 cents per gallon. Article V. It is understood that if any reduction is made by the Colony of Newfoundland, at any time during the term of this convention, in the rate of duty upon the articles named in Article IV. of this convention, coming from any other country, the said reduction shall apply to the United States, and that no heavier duty shall be imposed on articles coming from the United States than is imposed on such articles coming from elsewhere. Article VI. The present convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty ; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon thereafter as practicable. Its provisions shall go into effect thirty days after the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue and remain in full force for the term of five years from the date at which it may come into operation, and further until the expiration of twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other at the end of the said term of five years, or at any time afterwards. In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this convention, and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, this Bth day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1902. John Hay. [Seal.] Michael H. Herbert. [Seal.] Approximate, Cost of Paper. —Preparation, not given; printing (1,375 copies), £1 6s. 6d.

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