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 2654 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. shall be presented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or change_s in itslpresent laws or regulations affecting American Commerce m the rench Coast of Somali as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the resent Eproc amation shall have been issued. IN WITN SS WHER OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United_States to  affixed. _ Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine himdre and ten, and of the [snap.] Indepipidence of the United States of America the one hun and thirty-fourth. Wm H Tam . By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. , Jnrcuzanoio. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. - A PROCLAMATION. FTW °¤ 1;****, of °* WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August rrsiiniliz 5, 1909, entitled "Xn _Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and 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 any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutui a), 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—6ve per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Proviekd, That whenever, after the thirty·iirst 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 an other manner, directly or indirergly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultu, 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 dut or prohibition upon_ e exportation of any article to the United States which undruly 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 u u proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles, wlioen 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 thi Act. AND Wnnnnas 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 provisions, trade or other regulations, chargles, exactions, or in any other manner, direct] or indirectly, upon the importation into or the Sale in French West Afiica of any airiicultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, w ch unduly drscruninate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to French  Africa pays no export bounty or imposes no eitrport duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the mted States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the
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