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 2666 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ° f, an that such fore` coun accords to the dxgfxprodullts of the Unitedggtates trteyatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United tatee, all articles when 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 Wimnmas 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 lprovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Guadeloupe and De ndenc1es of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product ofpiihe United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to Guadeloupe and Dependencies pays no exportllmounty or imposes no expprt dutg or prohibition upon the exportation of an article to the mted tates which un uly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to Guadeloupe and Dependencies accords to the agricultural, manufactured or other products of the United States treatment which is reiziprocal and equivalent: ,§§'g"“{‘,, ‘°{,‘,‘f,,,;§ Now, Tnmmronn, I, Wnmmm Howann Tam, President of the §•é¤ figww ¤¤¤ United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by W the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of the French Re blic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in (iiiladeloupe and Dependencies of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Guadeloupe and Dependencies shall be admitted under the terms of c the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved An st 5, 1909; d,§,$,",,{°',‘{'·,*,,°},‘,,f,f “,’,§‘§§§ Provided, however, that this proclamation sha?] not take eifect gig? A¤¤¤¤¢¤¤ wm- from and a,fter_March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ` that, 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 chan es in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Guadeloupe and Dependencies as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation b the President of such fact, revokirég the lpresent roclamation, shallyhave been issued. IN ITN SS WIIEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caged the sialgf theflépitehd States to be affixed. NE at the ity o as `ngton, this twenty-eighth da ofMa h A. D. one thousand nine hundredyanlll ten, iind of rihé [smart] Indelpendence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H TAFT P C Knox Secretary of Statc.