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 2520 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reci rocal and urvalent: _ “*{:,,gg Now, Tnnanrdnn,  Wrmrrau Tlliowaan TA1=·r, President of the d l£%r°¢p’§¤¤Ih:¤¤g_M. United_States of America, by virtue of the power m 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 Portugal imposes no terms or restrictions upon the imtportation or sale in Portu al and the Azores and Madeira Islands o the products of the United States which undul discriminate against the United States, all articles when into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Portugalp and the Azores and Madeira 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; ,,R¤|¤¤¤m,m:f¤:‘g‘$: Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect mmaammm wm- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall 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 Portugal has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Portuga and the Azores and Madeira Is ands as_to discriminate unduy in any way against such commerce, and m the further event t at a proclamation by the §;I'B8l(%€I1t of sngsh fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall ave en rssue . IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [san.,] Independence of the United States of America the one . hun red and thu·ty-fourth., W M H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. ' ¤¤=¤¤v¤•.m¤- By me Pnssmmm or ran Umrnn Srrrvrns or Arrmuca. _ A PROCLAMATION. ,,§‘§,_°“ “"°'”"‘ WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August $¤:,e¤;¤;_ 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- P°S°S _‘ That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten except as otherwise specially lprovided for in this section, there shall be levied: collected, and  on all artrc es when _1mported from anly foreign count into the United States, or into any of ICS possemions (except the hili pine Islanx and the mlands of Guam and ffuturla), the rates of duty prescribed E the schedules and paragraphs of the dutrable list of section one o t is Act, andy in addition thereto twenty-five per_centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tani of the United States: Prmnded, That whenever, after the thirty-first da of March, nmeteen 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 m any other manner, directly.0r: indirectly, upon the