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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2643 no export_ duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Nepal accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and e uivalent: Now, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM Howann TAFT, (President of the ,f§§§‘,§§’“’§,, *“f§p,,$ United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the gow N¤¤¤¤- 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 Ne al imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Njepal of the pgoducts of the United States wluch unduly discriminate against the nited States, all articles when imlported mto the United tates, or any of its possessions (except the hili ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Ne al shallpllie admitted under the terms . of the minimum tariff of the Uiiited 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 d,SIf,§,"$§§‘§,‘,,f,‘ “}§‘§§§ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ¤z¤i¤S¤ Awww wmthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence m°r°°‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of· Nepal has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Nepal_ as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and m the further event that a proclamation by th; Presiident of spch fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all ave een issue . IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereimto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twent —fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Inde endence of the United States of America the one humiied and thirty-fourth. W H T M AFT By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. usrcu24,1s1o. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August S8'£¤{,*§ry;*°P¤d¤¤¤ °* 5, 1909, entitled “An Act To rovide revenue, egualize duties and en- Preamble; courage the industries of the lllnited States, and or other purposes "—- ’*""· ’· ”· 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 Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by theschedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-Eve per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, 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 country imposes no terms or restrictions, either Ill the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or nn 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 States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohi-