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2656 PROGLAMATIONS, 1910. criminates 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, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all 8ftlClQS-W en 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 shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted rmder the tems of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wrmnnas 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 in irectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Protectorate of Tunis of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to the Protectorate of Tunis pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to the Protectorate . of Tunis accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products ` of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent:

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K-iii; Tune. United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the P aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and solo thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is m existence and theugirovemment of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Protectorate of Tunis 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Protectorate of Tunis shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one R mn H d of the '1`ariif Act of the United States approved An t 5, 1909; ,,,,,§,$,,,,,,,, “,§,,§§ Provided, however, that this proclamation shalluriot take effect Lex} -¤¤¤¤=¤¤ wm- from and after_March_3l, 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 Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Protectorate of Tunis as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce purl; in thekfurthler event that a proclamation by the President of such ac , revo m the resent roc amation, shall have beeni u . IN WITNIZSS FVHEREIOF I have hereunto set my Sliaiid and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H TAN P C KNOx Secretary of State.