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 I PROOLAMAT10Ns—, 1910. 2557 BY rim Pmszsmmrr pr um Um·rm>` Srxms ow Aumuca. ¥¤*¤¤ *·1°i°- A·'PR(X}LAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August '“"‘”°° P'°'*°°*¤°* 5, 1909, entitled "£n Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and !i>igi encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ’P` poses"— ‘ 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 ang foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilyia), 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·6ve 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 oi the concessions granted by the minimum tarii of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tarii rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in ang; other manner, directly or indirectly, u¥on the importation mto or the sale in such reign country of andy agricultural, manu actured, or other product of the United States, which unduly iscriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or iggoses no export duty or prohibition upon the eagrortatxon of any article to the Uni States which unduly discriminates against the nited States or the products thereof, and that such fore` country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the Unitel§.States treatment which is recigrocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect byt e President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or auv of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islandsof Guam and Tutuilal, 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. AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the German Emp1re with respect to Kamerun 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 mto or the sale in Kamerun of any agricultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the lllnited States or the products thereof, an that the Government of the German Empire with respect to _Kamerun pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the German Empire with respect to Kamerun accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Trmrmroizm, 1, WILL{ADI Howmm TAF·r, President of the ,§§§‘g{§’°‘§, ‘“§,§’p°‘;l; United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the grow K¤¤¤¤·r¤¤· ` 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 the German Empire with respect to Kamerun imposes no terms or restrictions u1pon the importation or sale in_ Kamerun of the products of the Lnited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (exeept the Philipgsue Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Kamerun s all be admitted under the terms of the f 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 Eroclamation shall not take effect from d,§;,jn°g§g;g¤;' 2*;: and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, mins: Amman wmat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be ""'°°‘