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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2647 with respect to Madagascar pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition u on the exportation of any article to the United States which und)uly discriminates against the United States or the roducts thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to Madagascar accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and e uivalent: Now, Tnnnnronn, I, llV1Lx.1AM Howimn TAFT, President of the ,}gg}g1¤¤g,¤{*¤ =r· United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by fiom wm the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mage known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lonéthereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the overnment of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Madagascar of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Madagascar 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 apqlroved August 5, 1909; - Provided, however, t at this proclamation shall not take effect d,,§;,{_$°,:B“,gg¤j,_* ugggg from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event against A.mer|mncom• that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ""“’°‘ sh all be presented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Madagascar as to discriminate unduly in any way agamst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation y the President of such fact, revoking the resent roclamation, shall have been issued. I§ WITIEESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Doxn at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundreg and ten, and of the [scar,.] Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundlied and thirty-fourth. WM H TAFT By the President: P (’ Knox Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA. imenzaisio. A PROCLAMATION. XVIIEREAS it is govided in the Act of Congress approved August G2;)¤r¤¤ ¤¤ P¢¤d¤¢¤ ¤f 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide 'revcnue, equalize duties and rrlginbie. encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ""‘°· P- “· 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 ceutum 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, m 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