Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1183

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2624 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. of any `cultural manufactured, or other product of the United States, gviilch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the German Empire with ct to German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the iiarolines, Pelew, and the Marianne slands pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly dxscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, an that the Government of the German Empire with respect to German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which IS reciprocal and equivalent: ¤1g{g¤¤¤g,¢¤g gg Now, THEREFORE, I, Wmnmu Howama Tam, President of the M ummm New United States of America, by virtue of the pglwer in me vested by the §*,§‘“‘°°,s,*f§,°‘,l*,P,f§’,‘l‘,X aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make own and roclaim that vs, 1 P _ •¤¤¤ wm- from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Co is in existence and the overnment of the German Empire with respect to German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands of the {products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the nited States, all articles when imported into the Unite States, or ang of its possessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of uam and Tutuila), from German New Guinea, including the insular possessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; . “¥g;:;{:a”{,•gu;* ¤:ljgg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect qymmamumn mm- from and after_March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ` """”‘ that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of the German Empire with respect to German New Guinea, includin the insular [possessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Iglands has ma e such change or changes in its 4 resent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in German New Guinea, including the insular gossessions of the Carolines, Pelew, and the Marianne Islands as to iscriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokiréglthe Eresent§iE>clamation, shall have been issued. IN T W REOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and ten, and of the [snA1..] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Tam By the President: WM H P C KNox Secretary of State.