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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2507 factured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tmmnronm, I, Wrr..LrAM Hownzzn TAFT, President of the lfgglgupo gg United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the fiom Spain auuwm aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that °°*°°'°" from and after March 3l, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Spain imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Kingdom and Colonial Possessrons of Spain 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutunla), from the Kingdom and Colonial Possessrons of Sppin shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the nited— 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 diggkrgggiggngf unix: from and after March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the_event against Ameamnrgomthat, at any time prior to the_aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '”°'°°· shall be presented to the President that the Government of Spain has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Kingdom and Colonia Possessions of Spain as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation y the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set m hand and _ Y caused the seal of the United States to_ be_ affixed. DONE at the City of Washrnlglgton, this eighteenth day of January, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and ten, and of the [snail.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. W H M Tam By the President: P C Kxox Secretary of State. A Br Tun Prmsrnsxr or Tim Uxrrsn Smrns or Anrmzrca. ’¤¤“°'>"8·*°*°·_ A PROCLAMATION. VVHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Con ress a roved An st T“"“ °“ Swlss l"°" _ P _ g _ gu ucts. 5, 1909, entitled "An_Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and lirezmblgé encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ‘ " :"" ‘ ‘ poses "—— 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 an foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippline Islands and the islands ·- Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs cf the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirt *·first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the Presidient 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 of tariff 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,