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 2646 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. novooouon uimdue Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not_take effect ,‘lg,,*"§‘J,'T"A’§§},°,§,,’§},,°,‘,l.`i from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and vo1d 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 Ottoman Empire with respect to Turkish Possessions In Africa has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Turkish Possessions In Africa as to discriminate unduly in an way against such commerce, and In the further event that a procliiimation by the President of such fact, revoking the resent roclamation, shall have been issued. Ilg WITl‘iiESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine himdre and ten, and of the [sun.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundlieed and thirty-fourth. WM H TAFT By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State. Kl!’¤bB,1910. BY THE PBEsmENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ,,'!`¤f*, E °¤ P’°d“°“ °* WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August Preamble; 5, 1909, entitled ",gn Act To provide revenue, equa ize duties and ·‘”“- P·"· encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes"— That f1'0m and after the thirty-iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise s ially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and pdd on allpaerfticles 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 Tutmla), 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 tariff of the United States: Promiled, That whenever, after the thirty-tirst 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 mimmum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign county imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, tra e or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in suc 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 bounty or imposes no explort duty or grohibition upou_the exportation of any article to the United States w `ch un uly iscriminates against the United 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 proclamationto this effect by the President of the United States, all articles w en imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Arm Wnsnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that_the Government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions, either m 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 Madagascar of any ag-lricultural, manu actured, or other product of the United States, w ich unduly discriminate against the United States or the roducts thereof, and that the Government of the French Re ubhc _ P P