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 2632 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported in_to the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shal, excegt as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tan of the United States as prcmcrrbed by section one of this Act. · Am) WHERnAs satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Johore imposes no terms or restrictrons, either rn the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulatrons, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Johore of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, w·h1ch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Johore pays no export bounty or imposes no export dut or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undu y discriminates against the United mmm um W States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Johore gigxgzing ¤¤¤1¤>r¤ accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnnnnronn, I, WILHAM Howsnn Terr, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the 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 Johore imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in J ohore of the pIroducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the nited States, all articles when imgorte into the United States, or any of its dpossessrons (excgpt the P ilipgine Islands and the islands Rmmmu H umm of Guam an Tuturla), from chore shall admitted under the ’terms armmxnssms me of the mimmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section $,,,_'{“““‘°'*°"‘°°‘“‘ one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5 1909; Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of Johore has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce rn Johore as to discriminate unduly in any way aglainst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation ix; the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dome at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hungd and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tsrrr By the President: P C KNOx Secretary of State.