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and after the date of such proclamation this agreement shall be in full
force and effect, and shall continue in force until the expiration of
the year 1903, and if not denounced by either party one year in advance
of the expiration of said term shall continue in force until one year
from the time when one of the high contracting parties shall have given
notice to the other of its intention to arrest the operation thereof.
In witness whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed
this agreement, in duplicate, in the English and Italian texts, and have
affixed thereunto our respective seals.
Done at Washington, this 8th day of February, A.D. 1900.
JOHN A. KASSON. [SEAL.]
FAVA. [SEAL.]
And whereas said convention has been duly ratified on the part of His
Majesty the King of Italy, official notice whereof has been received by
the President,
Now, therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the
United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said
act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of
said agreement the imposition and collection of the duties mentioned
in the first section of said act and heretofore collected upon the
specified articles of Italian origin as described in said agreement,
and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third
section of said act as recited in said agreement to be in full force
and effect from and after the date of this Proclamation, of which the
officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice.
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