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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2667 thereof, and that the _Government of the French Republic with respect to Réunion accords to the agricultural, manufizctured, or ’ other riroducts of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and eqmva ent: Now, Tnnnmronm, I, Wmmau Howaan Tam, President of the ulglgmw ug: •x> United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the fiom azuuiiiu. mm aforesaid Act of Coniess, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marc 31, 1910, and so 10% thereafter 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 Réumon of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Bhilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), rom Réunion shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescgiged by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States a rove ugust 5, 1909; Proviggd, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d§,$,"`f},{',§ff{’,§¤§,'“,2,‘§§§ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event  A¤¤¤i<=¤¤ wmthat, 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 in its present laws or reg- ‘ ulations affecting American commerce in Réunion as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation gg the President of such fact, revoking the present roclamation, all have been issued. IN WUTNESS WIIEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March,   D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and [sean.] of the Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundrege and thirty-fourth. W H T M AFT By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY run Pnnsrniswr or rm: Umrnn Srxrns or Amzmca. A PROCLAMATION. ` WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August T°"” °¤ P’°‘*“°*° °* 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and Nmziiiiiima 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 ang} foreign country into the United States, or into an of its possessions (except the P ilippme Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilii), 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: 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 indirect], upon the importation into or the sale in suc 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