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2532 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Uruguay as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this ninth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine_ hundred and ten, and of the Inde- [smAL.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. W H T I Arr By the President: P C Knox · Secretary of State. . February?. 1910. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNXTED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ·r¤-ur on Lrwnn WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August uggiiihin. 5 1909 entitled "Xn Act To rovide revenue, e ualize duties and 7 f · · P _ q am. v- 82- encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes"—— That from and after the thirty-Erst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, excdpt 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 an of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilii), 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 valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirtdy-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 of tariff rates or provi ions, 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 ex rt dut or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undluly 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, thereupon and thereafter, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands 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 Wnnnnas satisfacto evidence has been resented to me W) . . P that the Government of L1 eria 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 1mportation into or the sale in Liberia of any agpicultural, manufactured, or_ other product of the United States, w ich unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Liberia pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition u on 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 Liberia accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ¤l¤¤¤¤rg_ wlirugg Now, Tnnnnronn, I, WILLIAM Howimn Tam-, President of the Kbfrua, United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the