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PROCLAMATIONS, 1911. ]72] WHEREFORE, I, WILLIAM H ARD AFP ·.,.,,,, , OF THE UNITED STATES OF iii;3 mm¤¤:° the thirtieth of November next, as a day of thanksgi and pra 4;-, """· and I earnestly call u on m countrymen and upon El that digi under the flag of our beloved count then to meet in their accustomed places of worshi to join in ride praise to Almighty God and devout thanks for time lo mercie`su§e has shown to us. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. Done at the City of Chicago this thirtieth da of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven [sun.] and of the incllggendence of the United States of America the one hund and thirty-sixth. · H . By the President: Wu TAH- P C Knox Secretary of State. BY run Pansmmrr or rmt Unrrnn Srrarne or Anmmca N·*•·¤¤••¤·¤l- A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is provided by the Act of Congress of March 4;1909, *~ entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting i;°¤Tg.p.iu:s. copyright" (m effect on July 1, 1909), that the tprovisions of sai Act, "so far as they secure copygiht controlling e parts of instruments serving to reproduce m anically the musical work, shall include onlg compositions published and copgghted after this Act goes into e ect, and shall not include the wor of a foreign author or composerunless the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convenltligli, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar ts": ` And whereas it is further provided that the copyright secured by the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon certain conditions set forth in section 8 of said Act to wit: ver xs. p. im, (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall domiciled within the United States at the time of thefimtgiublication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation o which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copgright protection substantially equal to the prvtection secured to suc foreign author under this Act or by treaxy; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an internaticn agreement which provides for reciproei'? in the granting of copyrig t by the terms of which agreement e United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto: _ _ _ _ _ i H _ And whereas it is also provided by said section that The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determmed_ by the President of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time, as the purposes of this Act may require": _ And whereas satisfactory official assurance has been_given under date of May 29, 1911, that in Cuba the law permits to citizens of the Unite? rights to those accorded m section 1 (e) of the Act o , : _ N ow, therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United c¤*:¤:*;:•g_d¤¤?_:¤ States of America, do declare and proclaim that one of the slterna- gpm mnslealnyv tive conditions specified m section (b) of the Act of March 4, 1909, "°““