2536 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. FBDFHYXZ. 1910. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I A PROCLAMATION.
wm °¤P'°d¤¤¤ °' WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress a proved An st
Ad-¤· . P . · . P • fu Preamble. 5, 1909, entitled "An Act Tolprovnde revenue, eduahze duties an enf‘”"" *" 81 courage the industries of the mted States, and or other purposes"— That from and after the thirt -first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially providedyfer 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 pomemions (except the Philippine Islands and the Islands of Guam and Tutunla), 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 valorenr which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Pnmlfed, That whenever, after the thirty-nrst 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 count:} imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tanff rates or provisions tra e or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or ind,Irectly, 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 pakys no export bounty or imlposes no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation o any article to the Unite States which unduly siscriminates 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 uivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect y the ent of the United States, all articles when imported lD!»0 the United States, or any of Its possemions (except the Philiplpine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign, country sha , except as otherwise herein prov1ded,~be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. · AND Wnmznas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of HIs Pritannic Majesty with respect to Aden imposes no terms or restrictions, either H1 the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade pr other rcguletions, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, u on the importation into or the sale IH Aden of any agricp tural: manufactured, or other product of the United States, which `undul discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and, that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty with respect to Aden pays no export bounty or imposes no export dutg or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United tates which unduly discriminates against the United States or_the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty with respect to Aden accords to the agricultural, manufaetured, or other products of the United States treatment which IS reciprocal and eduivalent: g§;¤m¤¤rg° tspnfmx Now, Tumznroim, I, WILLIAM owsrm Tan, President of the Adm. Lnited States of America, by virtue of the ower In me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mage lmown and proclaim that frem and after March 31, 1910, and so lo thereafter as the aforesaid Act_of Congress is in existence and thenGovernment of His Hritannic Majesty with respect to Aden imposes no terms or restrictions upon the Importation or sale in Aden of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported Into the United States, or any of its possessions_ (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutu1la),_from Aden shal be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Ra H d Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; d,Sm*;n°°*°°¤ma,,°¤s *?mgg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect mimi Amman com- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in tho m°'°° event that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory ‘ evidence shall be presents to the President that the Government
