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 .PROcLAMA·r10Ns, 1910. 2663 the United States or the plroducts thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic wit respect to St. Pierre and Miquelon accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: _ Now, Tnmanronm, I, Wrnmam Howaan Tarr, President of the ,}gg§§*°*g, United States of America., by virtue of the power in me vested by the from St. Piem and aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that mq°°]°°' from and after March 31, 1910, and so longithereafter 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 St. Pierre and Miquelon of the products of the Ugiited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (excegt the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from t. Pierre and? Mi uelon shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of theqUnited States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this roclamation shal not take effect from ,,,§$,",,,°}’,§,?,'{},‘,,§"‘;‘,]§}§ and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event that, ¤s¤¤¤¤¢ A¤¤¢¤¢•¤ wmat any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be ml"' gresented to the President that the Government of the French epublic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in St. Pierre and Miquelon as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation b the President of such fact, revoki the resent roclamation, shallyhave been issued. IN  WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dome at the City of Washington, this twerzgty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hund and ten, and of the [sam.,] Inde endence of the United States of America the one hunciied and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam By the President: . P C Knox Secretmjq of State. Br THE PEEsmENT 01-* THE UNITED STATES or Ammucs. Mmh 2*% 1910- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is govided in the Act of Congress aplproved August, Mf.g·n¤`{(%¤_;_pmduca°r 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide revenue, equa ize duties and f"*g¤¤; *89,; encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ` poses — 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 anywforeign country into the United States, or into any_ of its possessions (except the ilippine Islands and the islands _ of Guam and Tutiula), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this ct, 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 thirt -6rst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafteras 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 r lations, charges, exactions, or in an other manner, directly or indirectly, upon (fig: 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 export duty or