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2572 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ‘ ‘ ‘ and uivalent, thereu n and thereafter, u ?>rt3cui·a1i1Iaeiii>Ir!i€tIdtt‘liE‘;lffe1:£.8l$5lp€Ii•€a Presidziit of the United lS°tates, all articles wgg: 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. Axn Wnmzpas satisfactory evidence has beenpfesented to me that the Govemment of His Britannic Majesty wit respect to the Seychelles Islands 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 im rtation into or the sale in the Seychelles Islands of any agricuitliiral, manufactured, or other lproduct of the Un1ted States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Seychelles Islands pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Seychelles Islands accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ¥'¤{§•¤¤y, *•*,;*p,;,g Now, '1‘rrnnr:1··o1u·:, I, Wrnuim Howxnn Terr, President of the xbsuchelles is- United States of America, by virtue of the wer in me vested by "”°" the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby maggknown and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and time Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Seychelles Islands imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Se chelles Islands of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or ang of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of uam and Tutuila), from the Seychelles Islands 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 approved August 5, 1909; d,§,"°,,,§§,‘}},‘¤;"j',,“_},‘,§ Provided, however that this pfoclamation shall not take effect

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` Ievent that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presents to the President that the Government of His Britannic L ajesty with respect to the Se chelles Islands has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Seychelles Islands as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revolmeg the]presentI_p]§·oclamation, shall have been issued: IN ITl\ SS W REOF I have hereunto set my hand and . caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this first day of March A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Independ- [smm.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam By the President: P C KNox · Secretary q'Smte.