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REGISTER

EDERAL
VOLUME 5

1934

Un it ed

NUMBER 214

Washington, Friday, November 2, 2920
The President

G reenlandS uspension D uties
of
T

onnage
BY TH E PRESIDENT OF TH E UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat.
214 U.S.C., title 46, sec. 141, provides, in part, as follows:
Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, man ufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the for eign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are sus pended and discontinued, so far as re spects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or mer chandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notifica tion being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemp tion of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer . .
AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Greenland on October 9,1940, th at no dis criminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Greenland upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchan dise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the above-quoted statu tory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discon tinued so far as respects the vessels of Greenland and the produce, manufac tures, or merchandise imported in the said vessels into the United States from Greenland or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from October 9, 1940, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of ves sels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be contin ued, and no longer.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 29th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal forty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt
By the President:
C ordell H ull
Secretary of State.
No. 2434
F. R. Doc. 40-4678; Filed, October 31, 1940;
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Rules, Regulations, Orders TITLE 17COMMODITY AND SECURI
TIES EXCHANGES
CHAPTER ICOMMODITY EX
CHANGE ADMINISTRATION
P art 1G eneral R egulations U nder the C ommodity E xchange A ct ORDER AMENDING RULES AND REGULATIONS OF
. THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE UNDER
THE . COMMODITY
EXCHANGE ACT, AS
AMENDED

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 8a 5 of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended 7 U.S.C., Sup. V, sec. 12a 5, and as further
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation:
Greenland, suspension of ton nage duties----------------- - 4329
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 17Commodity ties E xchanges :

and
S ecuri
Commodity Exchange Adminis tration:
Secretary of Agriculture, reg ulations amended______ 4329
T itle 19Customs D u ties :
Bureau of Customs:
Relief from duty in case of perishable merchandise, amendment____ _______ 4330
T itle 20E mployees B en efits :

Railroad Retirement Board:
Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, r e g u l a t i o n s amended______________ 4330
Railroad retirement acts, ac quisition of data to carry out provisions of_______ 4332
NOTICES
Department of Labor:
Wage and Hour Division:
Learner employment certifi cates for various indus tries__ _______________
Department of the Interior:
Consolidation Coal Co., District No. 1, memorandum opin ion, etc_________________
Federal Power Commission:
Sierra Pacific Power Co., appli cation filed____________
Federal Trade Commission:
Orders appointing trial exam iners, etc.:
Atlas Paper Mills, Inc_______
Ball CO___________
Ohio Art Co_____ i ______ _
Securities and Exchange Commis sion:
California Public Service Co., et al., hearing reconvened, etc_
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