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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2619 shall  presented to the President that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty with respect to Tonga has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Tonga as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation 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. DONE at the City of Washington, this twent —fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. ` Wu H Tam By the President:. P C KNox · Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMEBIGA. M=¤¢¤24· 1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August w'§g,“&§Fw*;’{ P'°"“°'¤•* 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenue, equallfze duties and Preammé. D encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ·"‘““·¥’·“’· poses’ — That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially plrovided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles w en imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P ll1pp1D€ Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuifa), 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: Provided, That whenever, after the thirt -tirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the Presidjent 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 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 mto 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 country pays no export bounty or imposes no ex rt dut · or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of,the United States, all articles wggn 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 minimum tariH of tge 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 with respect to Weihaiwei 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 Weihaiwei of any agricultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the {United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Weihaiwei pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the