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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2623 Provided, however, that this proclamation shallnot take effect from d,S*;;,‘;g,¤;Qggn§ *1;% and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void m the event that, against American comat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be '“°'°°‘ Eresented to the President that the Government of the German mpire with respect to German Possessions ui Samoa has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in German Possessions m Samoa as to discriminate unduly 111 any way agamst such commerce, and 111 the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEEEOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to_ be aflixed. Dome at the City of Washington, this twentyfourth day of March, A. D,. one thousand nine hundre and ten, and of the [sun,.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tam By the President: P C Krrox Secretary; of State. Br mn Pansmmrr or mn Unrrnn Srarns or Ammmca. Merch 24, me- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is govided in the Act of Congress approved August Ge'{§_{*a*f1g;¤eg>'¤<;,¤\;¤,f1',§L¤* 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide revenue, equal1ze duties and Preamble. encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- """* "‘ 82. poses "—— That from and after the thigtdy-drst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provid 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 Tntuila), 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: Pr0mHed, That whenever, after the thirty-6rst 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 tariH 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 implortation 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 forei n country pays no export bounty or imposes no ex rt duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States whiciiiounduly 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, thereugon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this eHect by the President of the United tates, 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 such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided be admitted under the terms of the mimmum tariff of the United States as by section one of this Act. Am) Wnnnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the German Empire with re?ect to German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the arolmes, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands unposes no terms or restr1ctions,_either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations charges, exactions, or_ in any other manner, directly or indirectly, ucpon the importation into or the sale in German New Guinea, inclu mg,} the insular possessions of the Carolmes, Pelew, and the Marianne Is nds 887-i1°-—vo1. 36, TT 2—1l——76 ·.