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 2574 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. evidence shall be resented to the President that the Govemment of His Britannic Lfajesty with respect to St. Helena has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in St. Helena as to discriminate unduly in any way agamst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United_ States to_be ailixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this first day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Independ- [smn.] ence of the United States of America. the one hundred and thirty-fourth. · WM H TA1·*r By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. umn. 1,1910. Br mm Pnmsmmwr or THE UNITED Sawrms or Anmmcs. ( A PROCLAMATION. I TM ¤¤ 1¤¤¢¤¢*¤¤f WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved A t Aramaic 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To {provide revenue, egualize duties and en- ""“* P' 82* courage the industries of the mted States, and or 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 ang; foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P `lippine 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-Eve per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promkled, That whenever, after the  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 government of any foreign country rmposes no terms or restrictions, either in the my of ta.riE rates cr 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, ngzmufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, gud that such foreign country payS D0 export bounty or imposes no ex rt du? or hibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States wgch un uly against the United 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn imported into the United States, or any of its pomessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such fore' country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the tems dirthe mimmum 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 Britanmc Majesty with respect to Ascension 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 Ascensmn of any agricultural, manufactured, or other pfoduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Ascension pays no export bounty or imposes no export_duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undul discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Gov-