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Page 34
... dollars and $ 1,200 , respectively , are set apart annually for the rental of the houses of the two bishops , and $ 3,876 a year for parsonages . The appropriations for religious purposes in the budget for the fiscal year 1891 - '92 ...
... dollars and $ 1,200 , respectively , are set apart annually for the rental of the houses of the two bishops , and $ 3,876 a year for parsonages . The appropriations for religious purposes in the budget for the fiscal year 1891 - '92 ...
Page 96
... dollar , silver , and 1 , 2 , and 6 cents , copper ) thus struck off was only about one - third that of the ... ( dollars ) , but counterfeiting of the latter became so common that they were speedily withdrawn from circulation ...
... dollar , silver , and 1 , 2 , and 6 cents , copper ) thus struck off was only about one - third that of the ... ( dollars ) , but counterfeiting of the latter became so common that they were speedily withdrawn from circulation ...
Page 97
... dollar , and at the fall of Geffrard in 1867 , it required thirty gourdes to purchase the same dollar . At this latter date , it was estimated that the emissions had reached one hundred and twenty millions , but the gourde still had a ...
... dollar , and at the fall of Geffrard in 1867 , it required thirty gourdes to purchase the same dollar . At this latter date , it was estimated that the emissions had reached one hundred and twenty millions , but the gourde still had a ...
Page 98
... dollars has been imported and this money has circulated freely in the country . Within the same period , an amount of Haitian coins bearing the effigies of Boyer and Pétion , variously estimated at from $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 , has been ...
... dollars has been imported and this money has circulated freely in the country . Within the same period , an amount of Haitian coins bearing the effigies of Boyer and Pétion , variously estimated at from $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 , has been ...
Page 111
... dollar gold , which was the average rate of exchange as calculated by months at Port au Prince for the year 1891 , the currency debt will represent $ 8,834,371.12 gold , so that the entire national debt of the Republic , up to the end ...
... dollar gold , which was the average rate of exchange as calculated by months at Port au Prince for the year 1891 , the currency debt will represent $ 8,834,371.12 gold , so that the entire national debt of the Republic , up to the end ...
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Page 238 - States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall...
Page 239 - All sugars above number twenty Dutch standard of color, two cents per pound. Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon. Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test. On coffee, three cents per pound. On tea, ten cents per pound. Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, Angora goat skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses...
Page 237 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Page 237 - An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 238 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduc.
Page 238 - Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventyfive degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five onethousandths of one cent per pound additional...
Page 238 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, te#, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty...
Page 238 - All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, namely : All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch Standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above...
Page 238 - Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy-five degrees, seven-tenths of one cent per pound ; and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test, two-hundredths of one cent per pound additional.
Page 237 - That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the 1st day of January, 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products...