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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2677 Aim Wrmmus satisfactor£ evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the ominion of Canada 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 mdirectl , upon the importation into or the sale in the Dominion of Canada o any agricultural, manufactured, or other goduct of the United States, w °ch undul discriminate against the c nited States or the products thereof, ancir that the Government of the Dominion of Canada pays no export bounty or imlposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any artic e to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the gmducts thereof, and that the Government of the, Dominion of anada accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reci meal and equivalent: Now, Tnmmronrz, I, Wmruu Howann 'lPAr·r, President of the uggynurgo upmqpég United States of America, lay virtue of the power in me vested by the gum 432..,.;. aforesaid Act of Coniess, o hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marc 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of the Dominion of Canada no terms or restrictions ugon the imrtation or sale in the ominion of Canada of the pro ucts of the United States which unduly discrimmate against the United States, all articles when imported mto the United tates or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) from the Dominion of Canada shall be admitted under the terms of, the minimum tariff of the United States as prewribed by . Section one of the Tarif Act of the United States approved August 5 1909; ‘ ’Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,£;,Y_*;°,gg*{§,_§ 'tyggg from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event mins: Amman comthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ""°°’ shall be presented to the President that the Government of the • Dominion of Canada has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Dominion of Canada as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a lproclamation bithe President of such fact, revo pvresent Eroc amation, shall ave been issued. IN WITIN HER OF I have hereunto set my hand and _ caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [san.,] Independence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED Srams or·* Aumucs. ¥¤¢¤<¤>» 1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August '1‘¤¤¤ ·>¤ ¤¤=¤ ¤¢ 5, 1909, entitled "r£n Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and Ni¥s»z$i»°ng§f°d encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ·‘*""·*’·"“·

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That from and after the thirty·iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collectes and paid on all articles when imported from an foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilh), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of