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 2538 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of Malta accords to the agricultura , manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment whichis reciprocal and ewivalent: _. ,%%*,;*****;*0 °°{,L`*p0g Now, THEREFORE, I, ILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, _ President of the fiom Malta. _ 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 His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of Malta imposes no terms or restrictions u on the importation or sale in Malta of the products of the Unitedp 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 an<f)Tutuila), from illdalta 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 Aiggust 5, 1909; d,§$, ’ {Pax Provided, however, that this proclamation sh l not take effect from scum American com- and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, m°`°°’ at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of Malta has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Malta as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event‘that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF 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.] Independence of the United States of America the one ‘ hundred and thirty-fourth. _ Wm H TAr·r By the President: P C Krzox Secretary of State. F¤br¤¤ry21.1¤1¤· BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ¤¤&'m°° °"°" P"°"‘ WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August ipsgmba. 5, 1909, entitled “An Act Toprovide revenue, e ualize duties and en- "" °2‘ courage the industries of the mted States, andifor 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 any of its possessions (except the Philippine lslands and the islands of Guam and' Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutrable 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 regplations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon e importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agncultural, 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 export duty or prohibi-.