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 2650 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. d,R°'°°°,, ug; {gg; Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not_ take effect against American com- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and vo1d in the_event "‘°'°°‘ ‘ that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, sat1sfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes in 1ts present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the French Settlements in India as to discriminate unduly in any way agamst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation bi the President of such fact, revokin%the resent §roclamation, shall ave been issued. IN WITN SS gl/'HER OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed: DONE at the City of Washmgton_, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand mne hundre and ten, and of the [snail.] Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundlied and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State. nnrsnzaivio. Br THE Pnnsmnm or run Urrrrnn Srrxrms on Anmmca. A PROCLAMATION. . l '1‘¤*¤¤¤ ¤¢¤ ¤¤ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August Li·xi¤li°h Eadmwm 5, 1909, entitled "gn Act To provide revenue, equalge duties and 5',,g‘jf",ff*§é_ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purp0SeS})__ . That from and after the thirty-Erst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, excggt as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collect and paid on all articles when imported from ap; foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilii), 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 tariH of the United States: Proankled 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 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 ex rt duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un uly ` giscriminates 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn 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. AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that_the Government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or rovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in ang otliler manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in French Equatonal Africa of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to French Equatorial Africa pays no