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 U PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2541 affecting American commerce in Abyssinia as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamatmn bg 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 aiiixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-first day of Febmary, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of [SEAL.] the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tmrr By the President: HUNTINGTON W1Ls0N Acting Secretary of State. BY Tum Pnmsmmm ow Tm: UNITED Srryms or Amumca. F¤b¤¤¤w 21,1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved Auagust ,,'.Ed".£L_°“ “°'°°°"‘ 5, 1909, entitled "An Act Togrovide revenue, egualize duties an en- _*j§ggf*;}{*gé_ courage the industries of the nited States, and or other purp0ses"— 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 Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), 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-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 aatisfned, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the g0vernment. 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 auch foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no ezgport dutv or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrnmmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forengn country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment_which is recigrocal and equivalent, thcreupon and thereafter, uponproclannation to thus effect by the President of the lmted States, all articles when nmported into the United States, or any of its pomessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of G_uam and Tutpila), from such foreign country shall, excegpt as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tari of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND WYHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Morocco 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 01* indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Morocco 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 Morocco pays 110 export bounty or imposes no export dut§ or prohibition u on the exportation of any article to the United » tates which unduty discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Morocco accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnmzmronm, I, WILLIAM Howmzn TAM, President of the ,¥‘g}g*°*;, °°{‘,§p,;$ United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by Eégmorm. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mage known and proclaim