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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2635 ernment of Montenegro accords to the agricultural, manufactured or othenprpducts of the United States treatment whrch is reciprocal and equrva ent: _ Now, Tnnnnronn, I, WILLIAM Howruw Tawr, President of the ,§,{'g}§‘“§ "§',§,‘{,g‘,{sT United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the iivm M¤¤¢e¤¤zr¤- aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Montenegro imposes no terms or restrictions ugon the importation or sale in Montenegro of the lproducts of the nited States which unduly drscriminate against the United States, all articles whenjmported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Montenegro 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; _ Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,s*f,$,'f_§_§§ft‘;§,§j “,§‘,§§: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the_event zlzgigst A¤¤¤r¤<»¤ wmthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ` shall be presented to the President that the Government of Montenegro has made such change or changes in 1ts present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Montenegro 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 roclamation, shall have been issued. IN VJITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ _ . Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the In- [smn.] dependence of the United States of America the one _ hundred and thirty-fourth. W H T M AFP By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. M¤rcb24,1910·

rA PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August T¤=*¤ <>¤ v¤>d·¤¤¤ af 5, 1909, entitled MKII Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and L`i>i$iii$r`ii§` encourage the industries of the United States, and for otherpur- —""‘-**-82- poses"—- 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 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 valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tarrff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-Erst 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 countr 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 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 bountysor imposes no explort duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any amclqto the mtcd States whic unduly discrimi-