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 PROCLAMZATIONS, 1910. 2655 French Republic with respect to French West Africa accords to the agricultura, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is rec%procal and e u1valent: Now, Tnmmronn,, WILLIAM Fifowann Tam, President of the ,,’gg{g*¤*g, wgég United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the fro m French est aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that Am from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the éovernment of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Frenc West Africa of the products of the United §tates which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its dpossessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the Islands of Guam an Tutuila), from lfiench West 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 a proved August 5, 1909; · Provided, however, iifiat this reclamation shall not take effect from ,,,§,,€,Y?.‘,;8“gg¤;' ugggg and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event that, against American comat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be mm" resented to the President that the Government of the French Eepublic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in French West Africa as to discriminate un uly in anlilxray against such commerce, and in the further event that a proc ation bly the President of such fact, ` mvo e resent roclamation, sha have been issued. IN NESS W'&REOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, . A. D. one thousand nine hundredy and ten, and of the [snail.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundiigd and thirty-fourth. A _ WM H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of Stale. BY mm PRESIDENT or THE UNITED Srrarms or Ammuca. Mwh 28. 1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August "`“,§’§s_°° T“‘?*"*‘“ 5, 1909, entitled "An_Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and prA1(?_r1§i encougage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- P` poses —— A 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 centum 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, 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 reiilations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such 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 exgrt duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to e United States w ch un uly dis- 88741°—voI. 36, rr 2-11--78