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 1=>nocLAMAT1oNs, 1910. 2561 BY rim Pnnsrnmrr or mm Urvrrnn Srarns or Ammzxoa. “°'°“» *91*)- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it Xrovided in the Act of Congress approved August ,,,'§§Q°p$§d]?,§,*§PE“* 5, 1909, entitled n Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and Ewbigi encouxage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ’p' poses —-— That from and after the thirty-tirst_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 ani; of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutu` ), 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: Promlkd, 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 gpvernénent of any foreign counsry impplses no tparms or restrictions, either in the way tari rat or revisions, tra e or other regu tions, barges, e f, or 1 gther mannlg, diiiectly or indirectty, upon the importation into Ziiiligngale iuusiildlli foreign country of any agricultura, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign cormtry pays no export bounty or imgoses no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the nited tates which unduly discriminates against the mted 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, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles_w en imported into the United States, or any_ of its possess1orm_ (except the Phrlrppme Islands and the mlands of Guam and Tuturla), from such foreign country shall, except as oiilpergdsesherein providmbgsiebadmitted undo; tlhe Karma o the minimum tariff of the ni tates as prescri y section one o t is ct. AND Wnnnms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the Net erlands with respect to the Dutch East Indies 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 indirecthy, upon the importation into or the sale in the Dutch ast Indies o any agricultural, manufactured, or other lproduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Netherlands with respect to the Dutch East Indies pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon_the exportatronpf any article to the United States which unduly drscrrmmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of the Netherlands with respect to the Dutch East Indies accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or (pthenprpducts of the United States treatment which is reciprocal an eqmva ent: Now, Tmzrzroxrz, I, Wrmrrau Howarzn Tam, President of the ,}g§§;”"'§, United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the gpm Dutch Em lnaforesard Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that H" from and after March 31 ,_ 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress rs rn existence and the Government of the Netherlandswrth respect to the Dutch East Indies imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Dutch East Indies of the pyoducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the nrted States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of 1ts(possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam an Tuturla), fro1n_t e Dutch ast Indies shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as presxcrrbed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved ugust_5 1909* Provided, hdwever, that this rifoclamation shall not take effect d,*'·°'°°¤*,,,'°°,,,¤','¤¤d¤•, from and after March 31,_19l0, ut shall be null and void in the mrmammmwn event that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evi- "°”°°‘ 88741°—voL 36, Pr 2—-11--72 l