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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2661 BY THE Pn.msmENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MN01128. 1910. A PROCLAMATIUN. J. WHEREAS it is govided in the Act of Congress aplproved August F,'§g§f,*,f’,§§,,{’n’§f*“°*’ °’ 5, 1909, entitled " _Act To provide revenue, equa IZB duties and Erngamblgé encourage the industries of the United States, and {pr other pur- °’ p' ' poses"—- ‘~ " ’ That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundreiiidnd ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on a.ll articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuig), 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: Prmnkled, That whenever, after the thirt -iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the Presidyent 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 any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon e importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any @cu1tural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such fore@ country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly giscriminates 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, upon proclamation to this eEect by the President of the United States, all articles w en 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 WHEREAS 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 regpllations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, d1rectly or in ectly, upon the 1mportation mto or the sale in French Guiana of any swricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, wthich unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic _ with resipect to French Gmane pays no export bounty or imposes no export uty or prohibition upon t ie exportation of any artic e to the United States which unduly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to French Guiana accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and ecwivalentz Now, Tnnnnronn, I, ILLIAM HOWARD TAI'1`, President of the ,?g·g§g¤g¤° mgélwjg United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by lim reach sums. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lonéthereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the overnment of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in French .GU18D& 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 possessions (excepgt the Ph1h_pp1ne Islands andthe islands of Guam and Tutuila), from rench Guiana. 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 from d,S*f,$,‘k°9,gfQg§¤§ *;*25*: and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, against American wmat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be ma"'