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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910.i 2573 BY mm Pnmsmmm or Tum Uurrma Srrums or Anmmca. Nmh 1- lm- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it isggovided in the Act of Congress aggoved August s3";1';§,,‘;,';P'°"“°°*‘°‘ 5, 1909, enutled " _Act To provide revenue, equ e dutu-xs and Emmblgz encourage the mdustncs of the United States, and for other pur- ”l°’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 an foreign country into the United States, or mto any of its possessions (except the  'pgine 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 satisfied in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the Uluited 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 regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, duectly 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 xmduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no exgnrt du? or Srohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w 'ch nm uly against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign conmtry accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, ugon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States all articles w en 1m rted into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands andxthe islands of Guam and Tutuila), 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 His Bntanmc Majesty with respect to St. Helena imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or m any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the 1mp0rtation mto or the sale in St. Helena of any agrzoultural, manufaqtured, or other product of the United States, which unduly d1scr1m1nate against a the United States or_ the products thereof, and that the Government of His Br1t_annic Majesty with respect to St. Helena pays no export bounty or xmposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of His Britanuic Mafiesty with respect to St. Helena accords to the agricultural, manu actured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM Howlum Tart, President of the ,§.'{‘,{‘§°‘§, United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the nvm Sr·H¤1¤¤¤- 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 Britannica Majesty watch respeet to St. Helena imimses no terms or restrictnons upon the 1mportation or sale in §t. I elena of the products of the bnited States which unduliy discnmjnate against the United States, all articles when, imgorte _ into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from St. Helena ehall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Secuon one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this Qroclamatxon shall not take_ effect diggwtlml Lf ¤¤<i¤¤ from and after March 31, 1910, ut shall be null and void m the mans: American ¤¤m· event that, at any txmc prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory '“°'°°·