Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1127

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2569 BY mn PRESIDENT or nm Uurrmn Smxms or Anmmca. Mwh L 1910- A PROCLAMATION. ` WHEREAS it_ is 6(provided in the Act of Congress approved Au- M}`,,‘§,','{,,§f‘ "°"°°“°' gust 5, 1909, entntl _ "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties fggzmblgé and encourage the mdustries of the United States, and for other 'p' ' r¤rp¤¤¤¤"-— 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 mto any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuils), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto tvzenty-five 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 in the way 0 tariff rates or provision , trade or other regulations, charges, exactnons, or in any other manner directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale'in such foreign country oi 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 imgxoses no export duty or prohibition upon e exportation of any article to the Unite States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultmal, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereu n and thereafter, upon pmchmation to this effect by the President of the United ggatcs, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of itspossessions (except the Philippine Islands and the Hands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. ‘ AND Wrmmzas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty} with respect, to Mauntms imposes no terms or restrictions, either IH the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Mauritius of any agricultural, manufactured, or other plroduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the n1ted_States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty with respect to Mauritius pays no export bounty or unposes no export duty or prohibition upon theexportation of any article to` the United States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Mauritius accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnmucronm, 1, ‘VILLI;AM Howimn Tnrr, President of the ,}gg{g¤¤¤g) '=¤$*p0*;g United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the lim mam-mus. 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 m ex1stence_and the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Mauritius imposes no terms or restrictions u n the importation or sale_ in _Mauritius of the products of the Uliiited States which unduly d1scrxmmate against the United States, all articles when imported 11ltO the United States, or any of 1tS possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the 1slands of Guam and Tutuila), from Mauritius s all be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariif Act of the United States approved AuFust 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this proclamation sha} not take effect from d,sIf;,*;g‘;}&‘;gnf ¤:ggg and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, again: American comat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory emdenee shall be “‘°'°°‘