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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2665 BY mm Pm¤.:sm1·:N·r 01-* mm Ummm) STATES or Ammucs. umuzs,1m A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it Kgovided in the Act of Congress aplgroved August th'§}’§;'ng}} g’§‘}e‘§1'§n‘{{ 5, 1909, cntxtlogi _Act T0 provnglc revenue, aqua. ze dutws and i¤1§>r:8¤g:§k_? encourage the mdustrws of the United States, and for other pur- .4m,p.sé. p0scs"——- , That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in thm section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its pomessious (except the Pluhppine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutmla), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiablc list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twe11ty-five per centum ad vslorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Proankkd, That whenever, after the thirty-61st day of March, nineteen hundred and ten and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character ci 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 provxsiousz trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in ang other manner, directly or mdirectl , upon the importation into or the sale in suc foreign country of any agricultuml}; 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 exgfrt dug or rohibiticm upon the exportation of any article to the United States w 'ch un uly giscrimiustes against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural mauuiaqtured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and eqmvaleut, thereupon and thereafter, ugcm proclamation to this effect by the President of the United State, all articlgsw en nmpcrted into the United States, or any of IE5 possessions (except the Pluhppmc 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 bqcu presented to me that the Government of the Fre11ch_Republ1c 1mp0scs no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tanff rates or provisnons, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, gr in any other mgnner, dimctlg or indirectly, u on tho 1mp0rtat10p mto or the sale m the Franc Settlements in Bccania of any agrncultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the Ffnited States or they products thereof, and that the Government pf the French Republic with respecp to the French Settlements xp Oceania pays no export bounty or imposes no c1{?0rt duty or pr0h1- bition upon the exportation of any artxcle to the nited States which unduly discriminates agmnst the United States or the gircdupts thereof, and that the Govcmmanta of the French Repub ic with respect to the French Settlements in Oceania accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment whnch IS remprocal and iiguxvalentz _ Now, TH1:1zm·01u·:, IJ, WILLIAAI owsnm TAFT, Presndent of the u{gg};¤¤*{; *¤{l¥p°*;P{‘ United Stapes of Amanca, by virtue of the Eower in mc vested by Hom me mmmssrus. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma a known and proclaim m°“”m°°°°°i”‘ that from and after M8fC!1 .31, 1910, and so louéghereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress IS m existence and tlgc vcrnment of the French Repub}1c 1mp0sas 110 terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale m the French Settlements in Occama. of the products of the United_ States wh{ch unduly discriminate agamst the United States, all art1clcs when 1mp0rtad mto the United States, or any of its posscsswns (pxcapt: the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutzmla), from the French Settlements in Oceania shall be admitted unglcr the terrqs of the minimum_ tariff of the United States as prescribed by Scctnon one of the TBILH Act of the United States ggproved August 5, 1909; Prov: ed, however, that this ggroclamation shall not take affect MR°'°°*L “m”°¤l" ”";2 from and after Marc}; 31, 1910, ut shall be null and void in the ¤g¤&¤s¤Am¤s¤•¤¤¤m· event that, at any txmo pnor to tho aforesaid date, satisfactory ”“”`°°'