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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2555 from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Honduras imposes no terms or restrictions iépon the importation or sale in Honduras of the products of the nited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Honduras slliall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,};;£ggu§ ugggg from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event against American comthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactor evidence '“°'°°‘ shall be resented to the President that the Government ofy Honduras has mad}; such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Honduras as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereufhto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this first da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and, of the Independ·· [smart] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. _ Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ¤¤¤¤h1.1¤10· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is Apgovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August G§§,§}§, ‘§‘,§{"‘]{}}‘,§°' 5, 1909, entitled " _Act To provide revenue, equa me duties and Emmlylgé encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ` ' poses"--— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise slpecially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on al articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except th_e Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tuturla), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, 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 governe ment of any foreign 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 or indirectly, 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 duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei n country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), 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.