26Z6 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Venezuela imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Venezuela of the roducts of the United States vv ich unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the hilippsne Islands_ and the islands ofy Guam and Tutuila), from Venezuela s all 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 Au st 5 1909· _ Rcvvoatien ir undue Iggrilovided, hdwever, that this proclamation shall not_ take effect ,‘*"°'*"""‘*'°"’,,,,,,,U,,,,,,m,':,',,°,‘:,$ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null void m the_event ¤¤¤¤· that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Govemment of Venezuela has made such change or changes in its present laws or_regula— tions affecting American commerce m Venezuela as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and m the further event that a proclamation bly the President of such fact, revoking the present roclamation, s all have been issued. IN VJITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and ` caused the seal of the United_States to-_be affixed. _ Dome at the City of Washington, this twenty-nmth day of March, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and ten, and of the [snare] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one ‘ hundprgd and thirty-fourth. » WM H Terr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.
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A PROCLAMATION. '1‘•¤¤| ¤• ¤•¤•·¤¤ WHEREAS it is vided in the Act of Congress approved August rmmus 5, 1909, entitled ".£h(T Act To provide revenue, equafize duties and ·*"‘°· *·“· 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, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possession (except the hilip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this ct, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promded, That whenever, after the thirt —tirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the Presidlent 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 oreign 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 indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which imduly disr riminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no e rt dut or rohibition upon the expprtation of any article to the United States vfliiixh uncgily against the nited 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 reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when unlported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the the Phili pine lands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such fiireign country shall, excgpt as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tari of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act.
