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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2627 no eiipport duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the nited States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Bhutan accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Trrmznronn, I, Wrnuau Howann Tam, President of the ,}gg{g*•=¤g, 9g gg United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the lim annum. p° aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make 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 Government of Bhutan imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Bhutan of the products of the United States which unduly discrimi- - nate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its ssessions (exce§t the Phili ine Islands and the islands of Guam andwTutuila), from hutan shaIl)be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved Arigust 5, 1909; rovided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,£§',,,?·“,‘}“mQ‘ w from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event against American wm» that at any time prior to the aforesaid date satisfactory evidence m°'°°‘ _ shall be presented to the President that the Government of Bhutan has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Bhutan as to discriminate rmduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have herermto set ·my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundre and ten, and of the [ssrn.,] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one . huncligd and thirty-fourth. Wu H Terr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY nm Przmsmrmr or um UNrrm> Srrxms or Aumuca. umn 24,1sra A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress a roved A st 'f¤’”'°¤P”’*l¤°“°' 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenue, equglize dutieglgalird Aliiirrrrirbrr. encouxage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ·""‘· l’·_”· poses —— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred 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 cerrtum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Prmnkled, That whenever, after the thirty-first 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 coup:3 imposes no terms or restrictions, either in_ the way of tariff rates or provisions, e or other regulations, charges, exactrons, or rn any 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 Staten or the producm thereof, and that