PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2565 BY mm Pnnsmmvr or mm Umrmn S·rA·rns or Ammuca. · ¥*¤=*= *·*°*°· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it 1SAK[I;0V1dBd in the Act of Congress aplproved August G;f)°,;§§8§}* P'°d“°*¤ °‘ 5, 1909, entitled " _Act To PIOVIGB revenue, equa 1ze dut1es and J1;mam1>1¤. _ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ”“· ’· 8* p0scs’ — That from and after the thirty·6mt day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise sgecially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected and paid on al articles when imported from an foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philigghe Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty reecribed by e schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Xct, 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 provimons, trade or other reixlations, charges, exaction , 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 dut or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich undiuly
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 recipmcai and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to thi eiect by the President of the United States, all aruclce w en imported into the United States, or any of nts possession (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. Am) Wnnnms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britanmc Ma]esty with respect to G1braltar imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions,_or 111 any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Gibraltar of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Grbraltar palys no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannia Majesty with respect to Gibraltar accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which IS reciprocal and equivalent: ‘ Now, Tirmxrzronn, 1, Wruram Howrum Tam, President of the ,§gg{g¤¤*g¤0 ¢¤ggp;_g United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the fiom cmmxm. aforeszud Act of Coniress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marc $1, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Qongress IS in existence and the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Gibraltar imposes no terms or restrictions u(pon the imiportation or sale in Gibraltar of the products of the bmte _States w rch unduly discriminate against the United States, &u_3»I'lZ1Cl6S when implorted into the United States, or any of its (possessions (except_the P ihplpme Islands and the islands of Guam an Tutuila), from G1braltar_ s all be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the 'fariif Act of the United_ States approved Aulfust 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this proclamation sha not take effect dikeycggiggngf und.? from and after'March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in theevent ,g§{,,"S A,,,,.~;,,,..,Y§.,,-.,€ that, at any tune prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence m°*'°°- shall be presented to the President that the Government of His
