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2634 1>R0cLAMAT10Ns, 1910. shall be presented to the President that the Govgmment of the J apanese Empire with respect to the Kwa11tun§'Itcrr1t0i1iy hgs made quch change or cha cs in its present laws or regu atnqns q gcting Amamcqn commerce in Itgc Kwantung Territory as to discriminate unduly m any way against such commerce, and in thojurther event that a proclamation bg the President of such fact, rcvoking the present proclamation, s all have been nssued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, tlus twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundra and ten, and of the [sun,.] Inde cndence of the United States of America the one hundred and thjrty-fourtl1. Wu H TAr1· By the President: _ P C KNOx Secretary of State. ¤¤¤¤24· 1910- ‘BY THE Pnusrnzm or Tum UNITED Snrms or- Aumucm. A PROCLAMATION. '¤‘¤¤¤ ¤¤ i¤¤¤¤•=¤ WHEREAS it is rovidcd in the Act of Congress up roved August °‘1¥::i°E°` 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act T0 provigic revenue, equalgzc duties and """· ’· ”· encouxage the industries Of the United States, and for other purposes —- That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hxmdred and ten, except as otherwise ially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on afgwrticles when imported from any foreign country into the Un ited States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philnppiue 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 thas Act, and in addition thereto twenty-tive per centum md vulnrem; which rats shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and tan and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of tim concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imgoses no terms or restrictions, either in the way of uri!} nm or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an other mamnew, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such ¥oreign cmmtry of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United Staten or the products thereof, and that meh foreign country pafys no export b0u11t%0r imposes no export dutiv or prohibition upon the cx rtation o any article to the nited States which undu discriminates against the %)nited States or the fproducts thereof, and that such greign country accords to the agricultural, manu actured, or other products of the United States treatment which as reciprocal and equivalent thereugou and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United tstes, all articles when im med into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islanglaud the islands of Guam and Tutunls.), 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. Am: Wumxums satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of _M0ut>eneg·ro imgopcs no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, qr uy any other manner, directly or indirgctlly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Montenegro of any agxjncu tural, manufactured, OI; other product of the United States, whxch unduly dmcnmmate agamst the United States or the products thereof, aqd that the Government of Montenegro pays no export l{ount¥ or rmpqscs no exp0rt_duty or prohibition upon the exportatnoq o any arqcle to the United States which undul discrimmatcs agamst the United States or the products thereof, aug that the Gov-