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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 268]. agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is rec?rocal and emiiliivalent: Now, Tnnmtromt, , Wrnuau owann Tam, President of the ,},§§{‘,}{,"“’{‘,, “‘{§ °§ United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the E;9g·L8b§;,y(¤·¤¤£?¤¤ aforesaid Act of Congress, db hereby make known and proclaim that °` from and after March 31, 1910, and solo thereafter as the aforesaid i Act of Congress is in existence and theilgirovernment of Newfoundland imposes no terms or restrictions u n the importation or sale in Newfoundland, including Labrador, omhe roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against tlhe United States, all articles when imported into the United- St ates, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Newfoundland, including Labrador, 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 A st 5, 1909; ‘ lg-bvided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect “,$,§§: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event •s•¤¤s¢ Amman comthat at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence m°'°”` shall, be resented to the President that the Government of Newfoundlang has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Newfoundland, including Labrador, as to discriminate undulg in any way against such commerce, and in the further event t at a ·proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. ‘ IN 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 thirtieth day of March,

  • A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the

[s1·:AL.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one humiizd and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox , Secretary of State. BY rmt Pnnsmmrvr or run Umrnn Srarns or Amtmca. ¥•·’°¤$°· me A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Con ess a roved An st "`¤’*'* °¤ P*°d¤°¤ °' 5, 1909, entitled "X.n Act To provide revenuif equgllize duties gaund ;Ii¤r$gg1¤§£`iil`a;$'s¤¤:e°f- encougage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- °"{»%,,,m,§2· poses A , P. That from and after the thirty-Erst 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 p ions (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-Eve per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-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 provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or mdirectly, upon the imgrtatron into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, oro er &roduct of the United States, which unduly discnminate against the United States or e products thereof, and that such fore' country pays no export bounty or_ imposes no export duty or prohibition upon ig'; exportation of any article to the United States wluc unduly discrimrnates against the