Federal Register - July 6, 1956
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VOLUME 21
1934
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NUMBER 130
Washington, Friday, July 6, 1956
TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
PROCLAMATION 3145
M odification of R estrictions on I mports of L ong-S taple C otton BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended 7 U. S. C. 624, the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 No. 2351; 54 Stat. 2640, limiting imports of cotton having a staple length of lYo inches or more to an annual quota of 45,656,420 pounds, which proclamation was amended by Proclamation No. 2450
of December 19, 1940 54 Stat. 2769, suspending the quota on cotton having a staple length of l xiA& inches or more, and by Proclamation No. 2856 of Sep tember 3, 1949 14 P. R. 5517, changing the opening date from September 20 to February 1 for the annual quota for cot ton having a staple length of 1 Va inches or more but less than DVie inches;
WHEREAS section 202 a of the Agri cultural Act of 1956 Public Law 540, 84th Congress, approved May 28, 1956, provides as follows:
Sec. 202 a. Hereafter the quota for cot ton having a staple length of one and oneeighth inches or more, established September 20, 1930, pursuant to section 22 of the Agri cultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, shall apply to the same grades and staple lengths included in the quota when such quota was initially established. Such quota shall provide for cotton having a staple length of one and eleven sixteenths inches and longer, and shall establish dates for the quota year which will recognize and permit entry to conform to normal marketing prac tices and requirements for such cotton.
WHEREAS I find and declare th at the termination of the said Proclamation No.
2450 of December 19,1940, and the modi fications hereinafter indicated of the said Proclamation No. 2351 of September 5, 1939, are necessary in order to carry out the provisions of the said section 202
a of the Agricultural Act of 1956:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D.
EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 202 a of the said Agricultural Act of 1956. do hereby terminate the said
Proclamation No. 2450 of December 19, CONTENTS
1940, and do hereby further modify the said Proclamation No. 2351 of September THE PRESIDENT
5, 1939, so th at 1 the quota year for cotton having a staple length of lYa Proclamations Modification of restrictions on inches or more shall hereafter commence imports of long-staple cottonon August 1, and 2 the quantity of such Modifying Proclamation - No.
cotton which may be entered or with 3140 carrying out the Sixth drawn from warehouse for consumption Protocol of supplementary during the period May 28, 1956, to July concessions to the General 31, 1956, inclusive, together with the Agreement on Tariffs and quantity of cotton having a staple length Trade___________________of 1 Va inches or more but less than l l1At inches which was entered or withdrawn EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
from warehouse for consumption during the period February 1, 1956, to May 27, Agricultural Conservation Pro 1956, inclusive, shall not exceed 22,gram Service 828,210 pounds.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here Rules and regulations:
Vegetative cover for green m a unto set my hand and caused the Seal nure and protection from of the United States of America to be erosion:
affixed.
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DONE at the City of Washington this 1956 ______________ _______
twenty-ninth day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred Agricultural Marketing Service seal and fifty-six, and of the Inde Rules and regulations:
pendence of the United States Pears, Bartlett, fresh; grown in of America the one hundred and California; regulation by eightieth.
grades and sizes---------------D wight D. E isenhower Tobacco markets, designation of;
Swainsboro and Thomasville, By the President:
Ga., and Madison, Fla _
H erbert H oover, Jr., Agriculture Department Acting Secretary of State.
See Agricultural Conservation P. R. Doc. 56-5410; Piled, July 5, 1956;
Program Service; Agricultural 11:07 a. m.
Marketing Service ; Farmers Home Administration.
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Air Force Department PROCLAMATION 3146
M odifying P roclamation No. 3140
C arrying O ut the S ixth P rotocol of S upplementary C oncessions to the G eneral A greement on T ariffs and T rade BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 3140
of June 13, 1956 21 F. R. 4237, the President has proclaimed such modifica tions of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States, or such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States as were found to be reContinued on p. 4997
Rules and regulations:
Enlisted Reserve; voluntary en try on extended active duty 5014
Atomic Energy Commission
Notices :
State College of Washington;
application for utilization fa cility license---------------------- 5019
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rules and regulations :
Certification and operation rules for scheduled air carriers;
alternate airport landing minimums:
In terstate_________________ 4999
Outside continental limits of United States------ ------------ 4999
Commerce Department
See Federal Maritime Board.
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