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 2596 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. hibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly sariminates against the United States or the products 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, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all &l’¢lClQB·W en imported Into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the mimmum tariff 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 the Dominican Republic imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or lprovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectl, upon the importation into or the sale in the Dominican Republic of, any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which undul discriminate against the United States or the roducts thereof, and, that the Government of the Dominican Repubfic pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Dominican Republic accords to the agricultural, manufactmed, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and eqmvalent: 1¤¤¤¤¤=g0¤L!p6•rg Now, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM Howann Tam, President of the gbhnmmm at- United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the "‘w°‘ 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 the Dominican Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Dominican Republic of the products of the Ugiited 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 Domimcan Republic 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 An st 5, 1909; ¤:m Provided, however, that this proclamation shalIunot take effect mm American om- 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 Govemment of the Dominican Republic has made such change or changes in its resent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Dominican Republic as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a roclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this eighth da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and1of the Independ- [san.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred · and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of Stale.