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 2534 PROCLAMATIONS, ism. AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Japan 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 Japanese Empire of any 'cultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, vgch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Japan pays no export bounty or imposes no export dutg or prohibition ulpon_the exportation of any article to the United tates which undu y discriminates agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government ‘ of Japan accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ""#g*¤*{*°“,'}.Fp,;{; Now, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM HowAm> TAm·, President of the mivrinn- United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid‘Act of Congress, do hereby mage known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so longl thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Japan imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Japanese Empire of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported. into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Japanese Empire 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; :u;‘°,},j},*g Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect against American com- 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 Japan has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Japanese Empire as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokin the lpgsesent Iproclamation, shall have been issued. IN V5ITN W EREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [sEAL.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one huntiizd and thirty-fourth. _ Wm H TA1¤··r By the President: P C KNOx Secretary of State. By rmt PnmsmEN·r or mE UNr1·En STATES or AmEmoA. A PROCLAMATION. mrgsu o¤ produce or WHEREAS it is {provided in the Act of Congress approved August ygxmbrgi 5, 1909, entitled " n_Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and ·*’· encourage the Industries of the United States, and for other pur- .I  ·; That from and afterthe thirt -first da of March, nineteen hun as otherwise specially prqvidedhor in thh section, there shall be lg;i3gd?1;%li;:feIlfc=$Ii’d paid on all articles when nm from any foreign country into the United States, or T.? ·‘i‘?.¥t?f,§”t£2”»i‘?;‘.°?.? ‘§°°’§?.£';$uZ‘i¤"i}"2‘l{I»I“‘%°°° ‘5‘°p.»tg..*“'°"°°¤§’.$ ‘f"‘¤I“ dutiable list dt section one of this Act, and in a{lditioi1ctheretIi8tiIrli>nty-five pg: cdhtixni