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 2626 1>R0cLAMAT10Ns, 1910. Revocmqn ir undue Provided however that this roclamation shall not take effect ummmmn mae ’ ’ P · · {lust Am§°,-zu wm. from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null an¢}v01d 111 thqcvcnt "'°‘°°· that, at any time prior to thp aforesaid date, samsfactory cwdence shpll be presented to the Pres1dc11t that the Government of the German Empire with respect to Marshall, Brown and Prowdence Islands has made suchphauge or changes in its {gas:-ent laws or rcgulatmns aifccting Americap commerce in_Marsha, Broyvu and Providence Islands as to d1SCI'1II1iI]8t6 unduly 111 any way agamst SHO?} commerce, and in the further event that a.Yr0clamation by the Pres1dent of such fact, rcvokin% the rescntigaroc amabion, shall have been issued. IN WITN SS & H ER_ OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Umtegl States to be affixed. DONE at the C1ty of Wasmngton, this twang,-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundre and ten, a,nd of the [smAL.] Indcsggndencc of the United States of America the one hun d and thirty-fourth. Wu H TAM By the President: ` P C Knox Secretary of State. 1nm.z4,mo. BY mm Pumsmmm or mn; UNITED STATES or AMERICA. ` A PROCLAMATION. · '*‘•*’*” °¤ P*°d¤°*¤ °‘ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved An st m€·%b¤e. 5, 1909, entitled "lEu _Aci> T0 provide revenue, cqualgze duties gszlud ’ " 82* encougaga the mdustncs of the United States, and for other purposes — Thst from and after the thirty-iimt day of March, nineteen hundred and um, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from an foreign country into the United States, or into auyaof nts possessions (except the Pgilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tumi ), 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-tiva per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United Staten: Prowled, That whenever, after the thirt:y—fir¤t day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessnons granted by the minimum tarif of the United Sfates that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions eithe; in jsho way of tariff rates og provisions, grade or other regulations, charges exéctions gr m any otlgcr manner, duectly or_indu·ectly, upon the importation inn; or the sale; m guch foreign cquntfy of ang agpcylltllml, manufactured, or other product of the United States which unduly xscnmmatc against the United States or the products thereof, and tht such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export du? or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un uly qiscriminates against the United States or the products thereof and that such {02511 country accords t0_ the agricultural, manufactured, or other éroducts of the Um States treatment whnch is recigrocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereaftgr upon proclamation to this effect y the President of the United States all artgcjes wheu imgorted into the United States, or any of its possessions (except, the Philippine Islam s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such forei country shall, exggpt as otherwise herein provided be admitted under the terms cgutha mimmum tan of the Umtad States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Am) WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Govemmeutpf Bhutan imposes no terms or restxictions, either in the way of tq.r1ff rate? or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, gxactxonsz O1'- 111 amy other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Bhutan of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States winch unduly • n • •, , dnscnmmate agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Bhutan pays no export. bounty or imposes