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 2666 PROCLAMATIQN S, 1910. evidence shall be resented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes in 1ts present laws or r lations affecting American commerce in the French Settlements inegheania as to discmmmate unduly m any way against such commerce, and m the further_ event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed, Donn at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [snail.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundlifdd and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Kuox Secretary of State. ¥-¤=¤¤· ¤¤¤°· Br mn Pnnsmnuzr or run Umrnn Smrns or Aunnrca. A PROCLAMATION. '1‘¤¤¤¤¤ 1¤¤¢¤¤¤ •* WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August Biigsrihtais 5, 1909, entitled will Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and """· P- 8*- encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes "— That from and after the thirty-fi1st 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 an of its possessions (except the P ilippine 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-tive 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 regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in suc foreign country of any agricultura, 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 Do export bounty or im no export dug or prohibition upon the exportation o any article to the United States which un uly discriminates 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when un rted into the United States, or anilof its pomessions (except the Philip ine Islands andm the islands of Guam and Tutui ), 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. Arm Wmrnnss satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Govemment of the French_ Republic 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 the importation into or the sale in Réunion of any agriculture. , manufactured, or_ other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic wit respect to Réunion pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation o any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products