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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. @59] United_States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britanmc Magesty with respect to the Colony of the Bahamas accords to the agricu tural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which IS reciprocal and equivalent: · Now, Tnmznrorzn, I, Wiuiau Howsrm TAFT, President of the ,}’§,§‘g§},P“"g, *°{j§p0’;g United_States of America, bly virtue of the power in me vested by the llwm ¤¤¤ Bahamasaforesaid Act of Congress, o 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 Britannic Majesty imposes no terms or restrictions Iulpon the importation or sale 11} the Bahamas of the products of the nited States which unduly discriminate agamst the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or ang; of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of uam and Tutuila), from the Bahamas 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 proclamation shall not take effect dkiglimgiggngf 2% from and after_March 31, 1910, but shall be null  void in the event mm: Amr-ism comthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '“°'°"" shall bgfresented to the President that the Government of His Britannic ajesty has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce m the Ba amam_as to discriminate unduly in any way_aga1nst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokiréglthe Eresent groclamation shall have been issued. IN TN SS EIQEOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this eighth dag of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an of the Independ- [sm;.] 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. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERIGA. H¤r¤h8.l910. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress aplproved August ,,,'§§‘,‘f,§,‘§,¥;f,°“m“§,?d§_’ 5, 1909, entitled " n _Act To provide revenue, equa ze duties and §;g·;¤g>1§& 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 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, or into any of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs oi 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: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-tirst 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 tariif 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 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 export