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 2610 1>nooLAMA·r1oNs, 1910. ° parsed ‘ of its possessions except the Phili ine Ihlaitis an?ttiieti;l%aziill;1i;>‘f(i} <i)£`l`19if1iila), from such foreién coiihtry shall, eiigept as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms 0 the minimum 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 His Britannio Majesty with respect to the Federated Malay States 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 the Federated Malay States of any agricultural, manufactured, or- other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannie Maiesty with respect to the Federated Malay States pays no export _ ounty or imposes no exgort dugy or prohibition ulpon the egrportation of any article to the nited tatw which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Federated Malay States accords to the agrieu tural, manufactured, or other products of the “United States treatment which is reci rocal and equivalent: Mmlmmino tag an- Now, Tnmnnronn, I, WILLIAM Hi))WARD TA1·*r, President of the mia may stx? United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, at 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 with respect to the Federated Malay States imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Fiederated Malay States of the gilroducts 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 Philipine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Federated Malay States 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; Rawggggéfugggg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect ¤gn¤s¢Ame¤¤¤mm. from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the “”'°°· event that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presentedp to the President that the Government of ` His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Federated Malay States has made such change or changes in its resent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Federated Malay States as to · discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokuég the E§e§1e1`i$_Igroclamation, shall have been issued. IN ITN EREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twent ~fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundreif and ten, and of the [smh.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. Wu H TA1·*r By the President: P O Knox Secretmgz; of State.