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 2592 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ' ' ‘ arf to the United States which 1‘i§iiyM?¢l’i;•cl;irti1iila0ixed1aPg,d1id1?ietlI:I?nifteii, lSt(:ii:;n di thdtjiiloducts 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, upoh proclamation to this effect by the President_of the United States, all articles when imported into_ the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the_terms o the minimum 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 Britannic Majesty 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,_d1rectly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Windward Islands of any `cultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, iiilgiizh unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony of the Windward Islands pays no export bounty or imposes no elxlport duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the nited States which unduly iscrim— inates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colon of the Windward Islands accords to the agricultural, manufactured? or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: 1¤¤¤¤¤·:,¤{¤¤ •v· Now, Tnnnnronm, I, Wmnrau Howaan Tnrr, President of the www Wlndwl as United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the '“““" aforesaid Act of Congress, do 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 im s no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Windward Islands of the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Windward 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 A st 5, 1909; Revugmngr uns? Provided, however, that this proclamation Iixhldll not take effect spam amsrssmlgsm. from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event '¤°'°°- that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of His Britannic Majesty has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Windward Islands as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of sigzh fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issue. ' IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to beafiixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this eighth da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, ancfr of the Independ- [san.,] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourtl1. ir H Tam By the President: W P C Knox ‘ Secretary of Sm.