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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2589 BY nm Pnasmmrr or Tun Uurmn Sums or Amnmca. Mm *%*910- A PROCLAIWATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August T°““ °°.}§'j,’d“°" °’ 5, 1909, entitled "1£n_Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and {> ¤g£•i¤-In md encourage the mdustnes of the United States, and for other pur- Am, p. si. pom ’—— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise eipecially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on al articles when imported from any foreign conmtry 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 preacdbed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-Eve 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 govern— ment of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff , rates or provisions, trade or other reinlations, 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 theproducta thereof, and that such forei° country pays no export boxing or imposes no exgirt duty or pro- » hibition upon ge exportation of any article to e United States w ich unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, ithereupon and thereaftgaq upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles w en 1mported 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 the minimum tariff oi the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND WHEREAS satisfactor_§ evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His ritaxmic Majesty imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions,_0r 111 any other p1anner,_d1rectlK or indirectl , upon the 1mp0rtation_mto or the sale in Jammca wit Turks and Caicos Islands of any agricultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduiy discriminate agamst the United States or the products thereof, an that the Govern_ment_of His Britannia Maiesty with respect to the Colony of Jamaica with Turks and Caicos slands pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any art1cle to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Brntaumc Maljestiy with respect to the_ Colony of Jamaica with Turks and Caicos Is an s accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: New, Tnmznroan, I, WHLIAM Howiuzn Tntr, President of the “’gg{g¤¤*;*0 °¤{g* gg United States of America, gy virtue of the power in me vested by the i,m3¤c ¤iii)¤¤ aforesaid Act of Congress, o hereby make known and proclaim that °“ ‘ from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress IS m existence and the Government of His Britannic Majesty imposes no terms or restrictions u(pon the importation or sale in Jamaica with Turks and Caicos Islan s of the products of the United States which unduliy discr1mmate_agamst the United States, all articles when imgorte _ into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Ifhilippme Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Jama1ca with Turks and Caicos Islands shall be admitted under the terms of the mmunum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States ` approved August 5, 1909; _ _ grovided, owever, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,};{g¤*m‘g_?Dj' **,:2: from and after March_31, 1910, but shall be null void in the event mlm .¤¤•r¤¤•¤¤¤¤¤·_ that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence mm"