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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2587 and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of the Leeward Islands accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is re<§procal and equivalent: ow, Tnnnnronn, I, WILLIAM Howann Tam, President of the ,,{gg{g*¤*§,, **1;* gg United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the iim me 1.¤ew¤¤i°n. aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that l‘“‘°s‘ from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of His Britannic Majesty imposes no terms or restrictions upon the irlpiportation or sale in the Leeward Islands of the products of the nited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Leewardp Islands 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 August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this proc amation shall not take effect d,S*;g{m;‘g’,',},,;‘m from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event against American comthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence m“"’°‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Ma'esty has made such change or changes in its present laws or regufations affecting American commerce in the Leeward Islands as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proc amation by the President of such fact, revoking the resentkproclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WTIEREO I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. DoNn at the City of Washington, this eighth da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and, of the Independ- [s1:AL.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary d State. BY 1*1112: PRESIDENT on mn UNrrI·:D Sryms or AMERICA. uma s, mo. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August Bggjgog? P‘°°“°'¤ ¤i 5, 1909, entitled " n_Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and greenbug, encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ” e' 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 any foreign country into the United States, Oi- 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 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 suc foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, md that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or