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 2612 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ,,R¤'°¤¤¤¤,," ll °¤d¤° Provided however that this proclamation shall npt_ take effect against am¤·1c•¤':•iii¤°Q from and after March ,31, 1910, but shall be null and void m 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 with respect to Northern Nigeria Protectorate has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Northern Nigeria Protectorate as to discriminate unduly in any wa against such commerce, and m the further event that a roclamation  the President of such fact, revoking the present roclldmation, shall ave been issued. _ IN VJITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONm at the City of Washington, this twentgcfourth day of March, A. D. one thousand mne hundre and ten, and of the [smart] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundifed and thirty-fourth. W H T M AFP By the President: P. C. Knox Secretary of State. ¤•¤>¤24» im- Br mm Pnnsmnrrr or mn Unrrmn Smyrna or Anmnroa. A PROCLAMATION. ’1‘•¤¤<>¤,,m¤ M WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August s°°mihs°¤rii»h. 5, 1909, entitled "din _Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and ·""‘· ¥’· “’· encourage the industries of the United States, · and for other pur- ‘ That hom and after the thi;t3·—iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially proyid for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any fqreiqg country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Phnlrppme lands and the islands of Guam and Tutuils), the rates of duty prescrihed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in ad mon thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promlled, That whenever, after the thrrty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall  satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted 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 the importation into or the nie in such foreign coun of my agricultural, manufactured or other product of the United States, which untyuly discriminate agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei country pays no export bounty or imposes no export dut or prohibition upon tg: exportation of any article to the United States w ich unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the Uniterfgtates treatment which. ~ is reciprocal and e%uivalent thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect g the Presr ent_of the Unxtcxi States, all articles when imported into the United tates, or aniiof its pomessrons (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutu QJ, from such foreign country shall? except as otherwise herein provided, be admitt under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wmsnnas satisfactog evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His rrtannic Majesty with respect to Southern Nigeria Protectorate (Lagos) imposes no terms or restrictions, either m the way of tar1ff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or mdirectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Southern Nigeria Protectorate (Lagos of any agricultural, manufactured, or other Broduct of the United States, w rch undul discriminate against the {1lt6d· States or the products thereof, and, that the Government of Hrs Britannia Majesty with. respect to Southern Nigeria Protectorate