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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2551 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 Chile of any agricultural, manufacture, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Chile pays no export ounty or imposes no export dugy or prohibition upon the exportation o any article to the Unite States which un uly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Chile accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tunmrroan, I, Wtnmam Howaan Tam, President of the ,}g_*g{g*¤*;*° *¤{§_{'p,g United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the iicm Chibaforesaid Act of Congress, dl; 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 Chile imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Chile of the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imlported into the United tates, or any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Ch1le 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; Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,§°,,‘T;‘,,f.P‘,,,"}},‘,,§'“§,,"},},’: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event •s¤¤¤¤¢ A¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ wuthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ° °°' shall be presented to the President that the Government of Chile has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Chile 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, s all have been issued. 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 Washin ton, this twentyfirst day of Februargr, A. D. one thousanil nine hundre and ten, and of the [seat,.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tam By the President: HUNTINGTON Wrnson Acting Secretary of State. BY run Piuzsmmrr or Tun Unrrnn STATES or Ammzroa. “°'°h*·1°*°· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August pgd°Sgs.°° K°"°° 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and en- §§,°,§f‘},*§‘§_ courage 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 any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutui a), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dunable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twent —tive 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 s all 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 0 tariff rates or