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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 265] export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to; the United States which undul discriminates against the United States or the products thereof}: and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to French Equatorial Africa accords to the agriculliaural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Trrnnnronn, I, WrLL1AM HowArm TA1··r, President of the u“§,§',§{§‘“‘{,"’§ ig United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by &<>z¤;1A{‘rr,¤¤<=1¤ Eliuv the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby malge known and proclaim U °°` that fr·om and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in French E uatorial Africa of the roducts of the Iinited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Pliillippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from French quatorial Africa 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 August 5 1909; ’Provided, however, that this roclamation shall not take effect §§,,§'“,§‘,‘§§§ from and after March 31, 1910, ibut shall be null and void in the ¥g(§g§° ·'¤¤¤¤‘¤¤?·¤<=¤¤¤- event that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory ` evidence shall be presentedp to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes in its present A laws or regulations affecting American commerce in French Equatorial Africa as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation b the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shallihave been issued. IN WITNESS 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 twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundre and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundlfed and thirty-fourth. WM H TAFT By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY rim Prmsmmnr or THE Umrrin S·rArr:s or AMERICA. “°'°h”·‘91°· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Co ess a roved A ust '*`°’“* °“ ¥”'°d°°*$ °‘ 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenlfrig equgllize dutiegnd FrIii]•ii1xzii1iie?_Chma` encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- A"“·"·82‘ poses ’—— 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 ani of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutm ), 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 centurn ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promlied 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