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2586 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Majesty has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce m the Bermudas as to discriminate unduly 111 any way_aga1nst such commerce, and in the·further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokin the resent lproclamation, sha 1 have been issued. IN WITNIDSS l)VHER_ OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be_af:lixed. Dorm at the City of Wazshmgton, this eighth dag, of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an of the Independ- [sun.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. 7I¤¢!18.1910· BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Tm °¤ {*°•*¤*=*=,, I °' WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August mmbznm. 5, 1909, entitled "gn Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and ‘""""°°' encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes L That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected and paid on all articles when imported from anyuforeign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the P ’ ippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenéy- ve r centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the nited gates: Promikd, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions (granted by the_minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any oreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly orjndirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export dut or rohibition upon the expprtation of any article to the United States which undiily againstthe luited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign coimtry accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States or any of its pomessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and 'llutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnnnnas satisfactoryevidence has been presented to me that the Coyernment of His Bntanmc Majesty imposes no terms or . restrictions, either in the way of tar1ff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Leeward Islands of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate_against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majestiowith respect to the Colony of the Leeward Islands _ pays no export _ unt? or imposes no export duty or prohibition · upon_ the exportation o any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates agamst the United States or the products thereo ,