Federal Register - December 24, 1940
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Source: Federal Register
DERAL
VOLUME 5
REGISTER
1934 v iflW IT E O
NUMBER 249
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Washington, Tuesday December 24, 1940
The President S uspending Quotas on I mports C ertain C otton
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935 49 Stat. 750, 773, as amended by section 5 of the act of Feb ruary 29, 1936 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937 50 Stat. 246, I issued a proclamation on September 5,1939,1 lim iting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con sumption; and WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has made a supplemental in vestigation pursuant to the said section 22 with respect to cotton and has made findings of fact with respect to certain cotton the entries of which were limited by such proclamation; and WHEREAS the Tariff Commission has transmitted to me a report of such find ings and its recommendations based thereon, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agri culture;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and de clare, on the basis of such investigation and report, that the circumstances re quiring the provisions of the aforesaid proclamation with respect to cotton hav ing a staple of one and eleven-sixteenths inches or more in length no longer exist.
Accordingly, pursuant to the aforesaid section 22, as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940, Public, No. 406, 76th Congress, I hereby proclaim that such provisions of such proclamation as limit the quantities of cotton having a staple of one and eleven-sixteenths 14 F it . 3822.
inches or more in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption are suspended, effective immediately.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 19" day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sea l 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 u l l
Secretary of State.
No. 2450
F. R. Doc. 40-5822; Filed, December 21, 1940;
10:48 a. m.
C ontrol of the E xport of C ertain Articles and M aterials BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
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A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national de fense, approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows;
S ec . 6 . Whenever the President de termines th at it is necessary in the in terest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions,, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof , he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except un der such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition of curtail ment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proc lamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or vio-
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamations:
Cotton, suspending quotas on imports of certain_________
Export of certain articles and materials, control of_______
Executive Order:
Export of certain articles and materials, regulations______
Military Order:
Deputy Administrator of Export Control, duties of__________
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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 7 A griculture:
Sugar Division, Agricultural Adjustment Administration:
California, 1940 and 1941
sugar beet crop prices____ 5231
Consumption requirements and quotas 1941___ _1__ 5232
Mainland cane sugar area, 1940 quota a l l o t m e n t amendment_____________ 5232
T itle 9 Animals P roducts:
and
Animal
Bureau of Animal Industry:
Rinderpest and foot-andmouth disease, regulations amended________________
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Title 10 A r m y : W ar D epartment:
Post exchanges, activities regu lation amended___________
T it l e 26 I nternal R e v e n u e :
Bureau of Internal Revenue:
Income tax under the Internal Revenue Code, regulations am en d ed ________________
T itle 29 L abor:
Office of the Secretary:
Regulations applicable to for mer employees---------------
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T itle 30 M ineral R esources:
Bituminous Coal Division:
District No. 10, minimum price schedule, temporary and conditional final re lie f. _____ ___________
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