PROGLAMATIONS, 1910. 2545 affecting American commerce in the Portuguese Colonies, namely: the Cape Verde Islands, the Islands of San Thomé and Principe, Portuguese Guinea, the Provinces of Angola and Mozambique, Portuguese Indra, the Colony of Macao, an the Colony of 'I‘1mor_as to iscnmrnate unduly in any way_aga1nst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokirag the ggent plroclamation, shall have been issued. IN ITN ERIEOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-first day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [emu.,] Indeipendence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. _ · Wu H Tam By the President: HUNTINGTON WILSON Acting Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UMTED Srxms or Axmuca. Febrwyv. 1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress ap oved August '1‘•r¤¤ ¤¤ ¤¤•¤•¤¤·· 5, 1909, entitled "gn_Act To provide revenue, equallfzre duties and I°°rii$1i»°1¢ii' encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- """· **·82· poses”— That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except ` as otherwise s ially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on alfiiérazicles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), 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 va|orem· 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 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 suc 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 dut or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich undbly discriminates 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. Ayn Wnnnrzas satisfactory evidence has been presented_ to me that the Government of Guatemala 1mposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or prov1sions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or mdirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Guatemala of any agricultural, manufactured, or_ other product of the United States, which unduéy discriminate agamst the United States or the products thereof, an that the Government of Guatemala pays no export bounty or imposes no exportduty or prohibition upon.the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrnmmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Guatemala accords to the agricultural, manufac- 88741°——vor, 36. rr 2--11-71 ’
