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 2512 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. AND Wrmnmss satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Russia 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 importation into or the sale in the Russian Empire 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 Government of Russia pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Russia accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products - of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: lyggtgmgo ¢¤{;¥p:rr; Now, Tnnnnronm, I, WILLIAM HOWARD TAM, President of the gem nassaui Empire. United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do 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 Russia imposes no terms or restrictions u on the importation or sale in the Russian Empire of the products ol) the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its ossessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and) Tutuila), from the Russian liimpire 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 atpproved A@t 5, 1009; dI§,L°g;*g§u;' ugggg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect from neamn American com- and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, ‘“°'°°‘ at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of Russia has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Russian Empire as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation bz 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 to be affixed. Donn at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Inde endence of the United States of America the one hunrlied and thirty-fourth. WM H TA1·*r By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State. January 29,1910. Br rms PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or Ammuoa, , A PROCLAMATION. Term ¤¤ N¤¤‘w¤¤¤¤ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Concress a myc A - priidrgrtilbxe. gust 5, 1909, entitled) "An Act To provide reveiiiue, eqliialize (dutilds """·*’·°’~ and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes"— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied cdllected and paid on all articles when imported from an foreign country into the United States, or Into any of its possessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragm hs of the dutnable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-Eve