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2562 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. dence shall be presented to the President that the Government of the Netherlands with respect to the Dutch East Indies has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Dutch East Indies 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 presengvriroclamation, s all have been issued. IN TN ESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom-: at the City of Washington, this first day of March, A. D. one thousand nme hundred and ten,_ and of the Independence [smA1..] of _ the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. _ Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox .. Secretary ey State.

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_ A PROCLAMATION. ,h'f•T,,‘,§:{'j¥‘='}”°*’°‘ WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved Ewptngi August 5, 1909, entitled f‘An Act To provide revenue, equalize ' duties and encourage the industries of the United States. and for 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 an foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and theislands of Guam and Tutui a), the rates of duty prescribed by {lie schedules and parapraphs 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 thirt —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 ih the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in ?§,£r§“i$,‘.?§3§°Zi‘l§$°E}§¤’ZJfZ{lL¤'i°‘lrl';l‘rEi2'é$$&“”°"¥f*°“ **253 °’ “‘? ““"’ ‘“ °“°*‘ v , Ol' O . States, which unduly discriminate against the United Stats; or; th:(pi·o(dutckt§ thgrgoefi and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no ex rt dut or srohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un<i'uly 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 e uivalent th r proclamation to this effect by the Presidetiit of the ’Uni3t§dqS)tt;t:h?dadl1ed':tii:l$zls, iihg: imported into the United States or an of its i · · · _ . X possessions (except the Philippine lslaads and tlge islands of angTutu1la), from such foreign country shall except as o erwise erem rovi , 'tted d h · · · the Uniwd States aspprescribed th; sgcltion oliiia dfitliig of the mmlmum mug of AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the (iovernment of His Britannic Majest with respect to the Isle of Man imposes no terms or restrictions, eitlier in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any otper manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sa edin th? §»leUof_ Man of any agrncu tural, manufactured, or other go ust; the maed States, which unduly discriminate against the Hm? _ tates or the products thereof, and that the Government of is ritannic Majesty with respect to the Isle of Man pays no export bounty or imposes no export_ uty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undul discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, audi that the Gov-