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 2590 _ rnoonaivnrrrons, 1910. shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Majesty has made such change or changes in 1ts_ present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in J ama1ca vv1th Turks and aicos Islands as to discrimmate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proc amation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aifi1red._ Dorm at the City of Washmgton, this eighth daéy of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an of the Independ- [SEAL.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam- By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. ' ¥l¤=¤8,1910· Br run Pnnsrnmrr or mn Umrmn Srrsrns or- Amcnros. A PROCLAMATION. _ '1‘•r¤¤ ¤¤r¤¤1¤¤¤ of WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August mmmsns. 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and "‘“·P·“ _ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ‘ poses"-—— 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 States, 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  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 e importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, whic unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export dugy or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un uly _1scr1m1nates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreggn country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the Umt States treatment which is reci rocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect gy the President of the United States, all articles_when imlported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s and_ the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such fore` n country shall, excgpt as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms Li the minimum tari of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnnnnss satisfactory eyidence has been presented to me that the Govemment of His Britamnc Majesty imposes no terms or restrictions, either m the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other _}’€gl1I8tlODS, charges, •0X8Ctl0I1§, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Bahamas of any agricultur al, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the Illnited States or the roducts . P thereof, and that the Government of His Britannia Ma`esty with - respect to the Clotlezlnyg of the gihamas pays ips export bounty or IIDPOSGS no ex _ u y or pro _1 1tion upon the exportation of any article to the llomted States which unduly discriminates against the