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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. _ _ 2659 orother products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: _ - Now, Tnnnnronm, I, Wrursu Howsnn Tsrr, President of the ,}§,g§'g‘°’§, °",}§J,;g United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the £r¤m Mslymgedsw the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that ¤°m°°° ' from and after March 31,_l910, and so lonithereafter as the aforesaid V Act of Congress is in emstence and_the overnment_of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Mayotte and the Comoro Islands of the pTroducts 0 the United States which unduly_ discriminate against the mted States, all articles when  mto the Unite States, or arg of its possessions (exoeg: the P Lppme Islands and the islands of uam and Tutuila), from ayotte an the Comoro Islands 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 proclamation shall not take effect  ugggg from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the_event against AmsrIemcomthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '“°’°°‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes m its present laws or regulations aii'ectin§mAmerican commerce in Mayotte _ and the Comoro° Islands as to rimmate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamationgy the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, sh have been issued. IN   F I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal (pif the; gvnited States lt; be ai'1ixed.h h d M h DONE at the `ty 0 ashm` gton t twenty-eig t ay of arc A. D. one thousand nihe hundred? and ten, -and of thd [SEAL.] Indplpendence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. ' Wu H Terr By the President: _ P C Knox Secretary of State. Br rin: Pnmsmmrr or rua Unrmn Sums or Aumucs. nnmuzs, mo. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved`August """“ °“ *“'°"“°'·’ °' 5, 1909, entitled “Xl`l _Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and g¤\i¤°<l1$:l:;; md Diencourage the mdustries of the United States, and for other pur- ina, p. ai. poses ——· That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in tlus section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or mto any of its possemrons (except the Phihppme 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, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the vemment of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way o$0tariE 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 such fore@ 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 forei country pays no export bounty or  no exgrt duty or prohibition upon tg: exportation of any article to the Uni States whi unduly  against the