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FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

REGISTER
1934

/A/ITEO %

NUMBER 171

Washington, Friday, September 3, 1937
PRESIDENT OF THE U NITED STATES.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

E xecutive O rder EXCUSING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FROM DUTY

Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
ON SEPTEMBER

17, 1937

Issued September 2,1937

General Sugar Quota Regulations, Series 4, No. 2

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. On Friday, September 17, 1937, the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, the several executive departments, independent estab lishments, and other governmental agencies in the District of Columbia, including the Government Printing Office and the Navy Yard and naval stations, shall be closed at 1 oclock p. m. or at such other hour as they, under their regulations, regularly close on Saturdays; and all employees in the Fed eral service in the District of Columbia and in the field service of the executive departments, independent establish ments, and other agencies of the Government, except those who may for special public reasons be excluded from the pro visions of this order by the heads of their respective de partments, establishments, or agencies, or those whose absence from duty would be inconsistent with the provisions of existing law, shall be excused from duty on that day after the hour at which the departments, establishments, or agencies in which they work are closed in accordance with this order.
2. For the purpose of this order, in establishments or agencies in which the employees work in shifts such em ployees shall, subject to the foregoing provisions, be excused from duty after four hours of work on the said day.
F ranklin D R oosevelt T h e W h it e H o u s e ,
August 31. 1937.
No. 77003
F. R. Doc. 37-2675; Filed, September 1,1937; 2:22 p. m .

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Bureau of Customs.
C ustoms R egulations
G. S. Q. R. Series 4, No. 3

of the
S ugar C onsum ption R equirements and Q uotas C alendar Y ear 1937

for
the
By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of A gri culture by the Sugar Act of 1937, approved September 1, 1937
hereinafter referred to as the act , I, H. A. Wallace, Sec retary of Agriculture, in order to carry out the powers vested in me by the said act, do hereby make, prescribe, publish, and give public notice of these regulations,1 which shall have the force and effect of law and shall remain in force and effect until amended or superseded by orders or regulations hereafter made by the Secretary of Agriculture.
I 1.
It is hereby determined, pursuant to section 201 of the said act, that the amount of sugar needed to meet the re quirements of consumers in the continental United States for the calendar year 1937 is 7,042,733 short tons of sugar, raw value.
n 1. There are hereby established, pursuant to section 202 of the said act, fo r domestic sugar-producing areas, for the calendar year 1937, the following quotas:
Areas and Quotas in Terms of Short Tons, Raw Value Domestic beet sugar, 1,633,361; mainland cane sugar, 442,793; Hawaii, 988,551; Puerto Rico, 840,954; Virgin Islands, 9,396.
2. There are hereby established, pursuant to section 202
of the said act, for foreign countries and the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, for the calendar year 1937, the following quotas:
Areas and Quotas in Terms of Short Tons, Raw Value
U nited S tates, 1937

Correction Chapter VI, Article 354, subsection g , of Customs Regu lations of the United States, 1937, filed with the Division of Federal Register on August 23, 1937 at 3:17 p. m., reads as follows:
g No special permit will be required for the delivery of importations for which informal entry is permitted as provided for in article 344.
This subsection was omitted from the August 25, 1937, issue of the F ederal R egister and should be inserted im mediately following subsection / of Article 354 printed on page 1811.

Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, 1,085,304; Cuba, 2,014,538; foreign countries other than Cuba, 27,836.
3. The quota for foreign countries other than Cuba is hereby prorated, pursuant to section 202 of the said act, among such countries as follows:
1These regulations shall not apply to 1 the first 10 tons, raw value, of sugar or liquid sugar imported from any foreign country, other than Cuba; 2 the first 10 tons, raw value, of sugar or liquid sugar imported from any foreign country, other than Cuba, for religious, sacramental, educational, or experimental purposes;
3 liquid sugar imported from any foreign country, other than Cuba, in individual sealed containers not in excess of one and onetenth gallons each; or 4 any sugar or liquid sugar imported, brought into, or produced or manufactured in the United States for the distillation of alcohol, or for livestock feed, or for the production of livestock feed.

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