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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2537 of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Aden has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Aden as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a roclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present procllamation, shall have been issued. _ IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Domi at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [sun,.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundliiid and thirty-fourth. Wx H Tam By the President: ·. P C Knox Secretary ry Sem. Br mz Pmismmrr or rim UNITED Srrurns or Anmmos. A PROCLAMATION. · _ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress a roved August '1‘•r¤¤ ¤¤ Mun 5, 1909, entitled ".Xn Act To provide revenue, equsi)li)ze duties and mrigscrilitu. 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, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P ihppine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuifii), 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·live per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirt -lirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the Presidliznt shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff ot 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 indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, 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 ex ort 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 such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, u on proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles wiien imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutnila), 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. Axn WiinRi:As satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of Malta 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 Malta of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which undul dis¢ criminate against the United States or the products thereof? and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of Malta pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition utpon the exportation of ani article to the United States which un uly discnminates against the United States or the