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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2559 agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reci rocal and urvalentz Now, Tnmamronn, fj Wmnrsueglowann Tam, President of the ,§g'g}§’°'§, “{L',,;g United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the from Germn Southaforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that wm "m°°` from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Con ress is in existence and the Govemment of the German Empire with respect to German South-West Africa imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in German South-West Africa of the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the Uliiited States, all articles when imlported into the United i States, or an of its possessions (except the hrlrgpine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from German uth—West Africa . shall 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 a proved August 5, 1909; Provid)ed, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,§$,2‘,’§,“§},‘,,L‘ “,§2§§ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event :.;::3:* M¤¤**¤•¤ ¤°¤¤· that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ' shall be presented to the President that the Government of the German Empire with respect to German South-West Africa has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in German South-West Africa as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation y the President of such fact, revoking the present roclamation, sha 1 have been issued. Hg WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this first daay of March, A. D. one thousand nine hun red and ten, an of the Independence [sun,.] of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. Wu H Terr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY mn Pansrnnxrr or Tun UNITED Srrvrrzs or Aumuoa. ¥¤°¤ *·m°· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August T°'§§,§Q€,g’f‘ P'°d"°“ °' 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and Preamble. encourage the industries of the United States, and for other Am" p' B2' purposes "— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise sipecially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on al artrcles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the 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-[ive per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tarid 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 government 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 unplortatron into or the sale in such foreign country ofany agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly drscnmmatc against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon th: