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 rR0cLAMAT1oNs, 1910. 2575 ernment of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Ascension accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tunnnronn, I, WILLIAM Howann TAM, President of the ,}gg§§*°'{{, “*{,§fp0*g United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the l)r¤m Ascwsivuaforesaid Act of Co ess, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marilgir 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Govemment of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Ascension imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation of sale in Ascension of the products of the United States which u.nduly discriminate ainst the United States, all articles when imported into the Unitedagtates, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Ascension 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 Augpst 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this procliamation s all not take effect  ",§‘,‘§§§ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event  A¤¤•¤<¤¤ wmthat at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ' shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Ascension has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Ascension 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, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereimto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washin ton, this first da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an} of the Independence [sm;.] of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. WM H TAFT By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or AMERIGA. m¤eu1,1910- _ A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved An st TM! •>¤ P¤>d¤•¤¤= 5, 1909, entitled "Aii Act Tolprovide revenue, epualizepduties andgdn— frtiigiggifd mum` courage the industries of the nited States, and or other purposes"—— *""‘· P- “’· That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise slpecially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on al articles when imported from any foreign country into the United Statm, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine 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 United States, that the government of any foreign country impcmes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tapii rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the im rtation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured?) or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no ex rt dutv or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States what}; unduly