2668 PROCLAMATION S, 1910. ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ le to the United States which undul §ir§c t»e1dg.;ia1.irii;li3t1(ile;Ii)in'i%;sii) I§€§iéZ°3} frhteicproducts thereof, and that such foreigh country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when Imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shal , 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 Wnmzmas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariif rates or provisions, trade_ or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or in irectly, upon the importation into or the sale In New Caledonia of any a °cultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, wiilch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with res ct to New Caledonia pays no export bounty or imposes no export diity or prohibition u on the exportation 0 any article to the United States which un¢i)uly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to New Caledonia accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: 1¤¤{;¤¤¤;·° wagfpgrg Now, Tnnnnroan, I, WILLIAM Howmn Tam-, President of the xbuswcsasma. United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby maize known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in New Caledonia of the roducts 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from 1New Caledonia shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; $$8%:; **;*:3: Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect gleam Amman com- from and after_March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Govemment of the French Republic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in New Caledonia as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokirxrg the Epresent roclamation, shall have been issued. IN i TN SSWHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washin ton, this twent —eighth da of March, A. D. one thousanfl nine hundredy ang} ten, gud of the [scar,.] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H Tm P C Knox Secretary of Stale.
