Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1139

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rRooLAMA·r1oNs, 1910. 2581 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to aiiixed. Domi at the City of Washington, this first day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Inde- [snan] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam: By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY rrrn Pnnsrnmrr or run Unrrnn Szrarns or Ammuca. “°’°***·“”°· A PROCLAMATION. t WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved A , t B"7*}",f'S‘{},,,,,,"°,,‘,}‘,}‘,§{’°' 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To Brqvide revenue, egualize duties en- ?*§:¤;>¤gg_ courage the mdustries of the mted 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 countrgsinto the United States, or into any of its possemions (except the hiligxine Islan and the istands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by e schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this ct, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valoregigzwjiich rates shall the tariff of the United States: Promifed, if whenever, after the irty-first day of {March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall 'be satisned, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariE of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariH rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in 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 dprohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly iscriminates 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 equivalent, thereu n and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the Unitedpgtates, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutmla), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the term; of the minimum tarii of the United States as prescribed by section one of this ct. AND Wmrnnas satisfactoligy evidence has been presented to_ me that the Government of His ritanmc Majesty with respect to British Somaliland imposes no terms or restrictions, either m the way of tarif rates or provisions, trade_or other regulations, chargles, exactions, or in any other manner, directg; or in irect?*, upon the importation into or the sale in British maliland 0 any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the _ products thereo , and that the overnment of His Britanmc Malesty with respect to British Somaliland pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any artic e to the United States which unduly dxscrmzunates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with resipect to British Somahland accords to the agricultural, manufacture , or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnnnnronm, I, Wxnuagr Howann Tam, President of the m¤}g=¤¤g, fg; United States of America, by vutue of the apower in me vested by lgnng armor Somalithe aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby m e lmown and proclaim ‘