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267'Q PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. commerce in the territory of Nicaragua as to discriminate uplduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event t at a proclamation byl the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States be afiixed. DONE at the City of Washmgton, this 28th day of March, A. D. one thousand nine_ hundred and ten, and of the Inde- [sum,.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tanr By the President: P. C. Knox . Secretary of State. HnrchD, 1910. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WW ¤¤ €¢¤¤¤**•¤ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August wiirdsuirtrhlis. 5, 1909, entitled "1En Act To provide revenue, equa IZB duties and .4¤u.p.¤· encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes 7)___ I '1`hat from and after the thirty-6rst 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 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 indiregxgy, upon the itggortation into or the sale in suc foreign country of any agricult , manufactur , or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly giscriminates 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, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles w en imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such forei n country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms 0% the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Am) Wnmznss satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Colombia imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of 't8l‘lH rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other rnarmer, directly or indirectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Colombia of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Colombia 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, an that the Government of Colombia accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ¤¤~¤¤¤¤g°¤$·;{¥I_;g Now, Tnnanroizn, I, Wumram Howann Tam, President of the mm United_States of America, by virtue of the wer in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make own and proclaim that r