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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2615 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. ~ M=¤¤¤24» 1910 A PROCLAMATION. . WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August S,T“'“},§,§‘ *"°d“°“°' 5, 1_909, entitled "A11 Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and igéemblztg encourage the mdustrres of the United States, and forother pur- ’p` ` poses ’—-. 4 That from and after the thirtydirst day of March, nineteen hrmdred 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tuturla), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promklcd, That whenever, after the thirty-fir·st 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 tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign mw imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, e or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an 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 cormtry pays no export bountty or imposes no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to e United States w ich un uly giscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to thi agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment whic is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this eiect by the President of the United States, all articles w en imported into the United States, or anyhpf its possessions (except the Philippgne Islands and the islands of Guam and tuila), from such foreign country s ll, · except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff) of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Ami Wrmrzmas satisfactory evidence has been_pi-esented to me that the Government of His_Br1tanmc Majesty with respect to the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone 1mposes_no terms or restric— tions, 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 impprtatron into or the sale in the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra one of any agrrcultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone pays no export bounty or imposes no export_ duty or prohibition upon the exportation o any article to the United States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: _ Now, Tnrmnronm, I, Wrrmair Howann Tam, President of the gjsigygwgc wjgpgrig United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by li-lm Sierra rams. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e 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 overnment of His Britannic Majesty with respect to the_Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone imlposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Co ony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone of the products 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 o ony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of