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1>nooLAMATIoNs, mo. 2567 Majesty with respect to Cyprus accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is recgprocal and equivalent: ow, Tnnnnroan, I, WILLIAM HOWARD TAm·, President of the ,}gg{g¤¤*;{, ¤·gfP_;g United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the Kam Cyprusaforesaid Act of Congress, dh hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Cyéprus no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in yprus o the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the Ifnited States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its dpossessions (exce(pt the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam an Tutuila), from rus shallgie admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the Ihiited States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this roclamation shall not take effect from dh§$,‘gfgffg’,gn;,’ “:ggg and after March 31, 1910, but siiall be null and void in the event that, against American comat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be “‘°'°°‘ resented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Elajesty with respect to Cyprus has made such change or changes in _ its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Cyprus 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 resent roclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this first daay of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an of the Independence [sEAL.] of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. _ WM H TAF']? By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERIOA. M¤r¤h1,i9¤¤· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress a roved An t Term ¤¤ P*¤¤¤¤*-wt 5, 1909, entitled "lEi1 Act To provide revenue, equailihe duties iunsd Chgigifinbie. encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ""”* *" B2' poses 7 !____ That from and after the thirty-61-st 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 any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine 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 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 tariH of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way o 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, whic ““""" ‘"°°?“°‘““*° “€“£Z“° ?3i$t'2f$°`i»?i?J}°° °' €l’$e‘§”d3°$if”°”°*s2?€if£‘¥f S"'?. 1 can s n or i.lir;§upiirtati<1ih gflsirny artigg to the Uynited Sm whichpiindulyiiibciiimmates agaihht