By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the United States and the French Republic have concluded, on August 20, 1902, an Amendatory and Additional Agreement to the Commercial Agreement of May 28, 1898, between the same contracting parties, entered into in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, which Amendatory and Additional Agreement is, in the English and French texts, word for word as follows:
The United States of America and the French Republic, finding it expedient to amend the Commercial Agreement between the two countries, signed at Washington on the 28th day of May, 1898, have named for this purpose their respective Plenipotentiaries, to wit:—
- The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State of the United States of America; and
- The President of the French Republic, Mr. Pierre de Margerie, Chargé d’Affaires of France at Washington;
Who, after having communicated each to the other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the following additional and amendatory articles to be taken as part of said Agreement:
Article I.
The High Contracting Parties mutually agree that the provisions of the said Agreement shall apply also to Algeria and the Island of Porto Rico. It is further agreed on the part of the French Republic that coffee, the product of Porto Rico, shall enjoy until the 23rd day of February, 1903, the benefit of the minimum customs tariff of France on that article.
[Page 419]Article II.
This Amendatory and Additional Agreement shall take effect from and after the date of the President’s Proclamation which shall give effect thereto, and shall be and continue in force during the continuance in force of the said Commercial Agreement, signed May 28th, 1898.
Done in duplicate in English and French texts at Washington this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two.
| [seal] | Alvey A. Adee |
| [seal] | Pierre de Margerie |
Now therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, have caused the said Amendatory and Additional Agreement to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
By the President:
Alvey A.
Adee,
Acting Secretary of
State.