Federal Register - September 20, 1951
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REGISTER
VOLUME 16
NUMBER 183
Washington, Thursday, September 20, 1951
TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 2945
A u d u b o n C e n t e n n i a l Y ear BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES
DONE at the City of Washington this 18th day of September in the Cs e a l
year of our Lord nineteen hun dred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysixth.
H arry S. T r u m a n
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS John James Audubon, nat uralist, ornithologist, and artist, by his devotion to a task which he loved and to which he dedicated his life, made an out standing contribution to American cul ture and art by his paintings of the birds of America in their natural size and in the full glory of their colored plumage;
and WHEREAS Audubon was a forerunner of the movement for the conservation of wildlife in America, and his work con tinues to stimulate appreciation of the wealth and beauty of Americas natural resources, serving as a constant inspira tion in the continuing endeavor to pre serve our birds and other wildlife from extinction; and WHEREAS Audubon died on January 27, 1851, in the sixty-sixth year of his life; and WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by an act approved August 28, 1951, authorized the President to issue a proclamation designating 1951 as Au dubon Centennial Year:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, H AR R Y S.
TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by this proclamation, designate the year 1951 as Audubon Cen tennial Year, in observance of the onehundredth anniversary of the death of John James Audubon; and I urge all mericans to do their part in furthering the efforts of our Government and of many of our citizens to protect and con serve the wildlife of America.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have ereunto set my hand and caused the eal of the United States of America to be affixed.
By the President:
J a m e s E. W e bb ,
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation
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Audubon Centennial Year______ _
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Trade Agreement Letter Carrying out Torquay Protocol to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and for other pur poses__________________ ,________ _
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Acting Secretary of State.
IP. R. Doc. 51-11417; Piled, Sept. 19, 1951;
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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agriculture Department See Production and Marketing Ad ministration.
TRADE AGREEMENT LETTER
C a r r y in g O u t t h e T o r q u a y P ro to co l t o t h e G e n e r a l A g r e e m e n t o n T a r if f s a n d T rade a n d for O t h e r P u r p o s e s
T h e W h it e H o u s e ,
Washington, September 18,1951.
M y D ear M r . S e c r e t a r y :
Reference is made to my proclamation of June 2,1951,1carrying out the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and particularly to the procedure described in Part I b I, of that proclamation.
Peru has signed the Torquay Protocol on September 7, 1951. I hereby notify you that the following 1 complete items in Part I of Schedule X X annexed to the Torquay Protocol in cases in which only the item designation is specified, 2!
portions of such items to which particu lar rates are applicable in cases in which the item designation is specified together with only one or more rates of duty, and 3 portions of such items identified by descriptive language in cases in which the item designation is specified together with descriptive language, with or without the applicable rate of duty shall not be withheld pursuant to para graph 4 of the Torquay Protocol on and after October 7,1951.
1 Proclamation 2929, 16 P. R. 5381.
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Defense Materials Procurement Agency Notices:
Deputy Administrator; delega tion of authority to exercise all functions and authority of Administrator in absence or disability of Administrator__
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Economic Stabilization Agency See also Price Stabilization, Office of; Salary Stabilization Board.
Notices:
Critical defense housing areas, Determination No. 1 approv ing the extent of the relaxa tion of credit controls______ _
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Federal Power Commission Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co__
El Paso Electric Co________ _
Southern Natural Gas Co____
Southern Union Gas Co______
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Federal Trade Commission Rules and regulations:
Plymouth Textiles; cease and desist order___________________
Immigration and tion Service
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Naturaliza
Proposed rule making:
Lien and seizure of aircraft____
Interior Department See also Land Management, Bu reau of.
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