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FEDERAL
VO LUM E 2

REGISTER
1934

AIITEO

N UM BER 183

Washington, Wednesday, September 22, 1937
PRESIDENT OF THE U N IT E D STATES.
F ire P revention W eek 1937
By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION

W H ER EAS more than ten thousand lives are lost each year as a result of fires in the United States; and W H E R E A S the property loss from fires in the United States in 1936 was more than $260,000,000, a marked increase over the loss in 1935; and W H ER EAS this upward trend in the devastation wrought by fires can be corrected only through the earnest effort of everyone; and W H E R E A S it has been customary for the President of the United States to request public observance of Fire Prevention Week in an effort to bring home to every citizen a realiza tion of individual responsibility in the movement to curtail losses of life and property from preventable fires;
N O W , THEREFORE, I, F R A N K L IN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby pro claim and designate the week beginning October 3, 1937, as Fire Prevention Week and invite the active cooperation of all our people in the elimination of fire hazards and the prevention of fire waste, to the end that human life may be safeguarded and the national prosperity increased.
IN W IT N E S S W H EREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DO NE at the City of Washington this 18" day of Septem ber, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal thirty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.
F ranklin D R oosevelt By the President.
C ordell H ull
Secretary of State.
No. 2252
F. R. Doc. 37-2804; Filed, September 21,1937; 12:24 p. m.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Bureau of Customs.
T. D. 49157

C ountervailing D uties S ugar F rom A ustralia treasury decisions requiring assessment and collection op countervailing duties on sugar contents of jams , canned FRUITS, ETC., OF AUSTRALIA, SUPERSEDED.
COLLECTORS OF CUS
TOMS INSTRUCTED, PURSUANT TO SECTION 303 OF THE TARIFF
ACT OF 1930 U . S. C., TITLE 19, SEC. 1303 TO REQUIRE DEPOSIT
OF ESTIMATED DUTIES AND SUSPENDED LIQUIDATION OF ENTRIES
COVERING SUCH MERCHANDISE PENDING DETERMINATION OR
ESTIMATION AND DECLARATION OF NET AMOUNTS OF BOUNTIES

OR GRANTS PAID OR BESTOWED AND OF AMOUNTS OF COUNTER
VAILING DUTIES TO BE COLLECTED

T o Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:
Reference is made to Treasury Decision 39310, dated No vember 16, 1922, as amended by 1923 Treasury Decisions 39541, 39789, and 39812, requiring the assessment and collec tion of countervailing duties equal to the net amounts of the bounties paid with respect to the sugar contained in certain Australian products.
Official information has been received that at the present time bounties or grants within the meaning of section 303
of the Tariff Act of 1930 U. S. C., title 19, sec. 1303 are being paid or bestowed with respect to the sugar contained in products of Australia exported from that country at varying rates depending upon the net home consumption price of sugar and an Australian equivalent of the world parity price of that commodity.
In view of the changed conditions with respect to bounties or grants paid or bestowed upon products from Australia containing sugar and pursuant to section 303 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the liquidation of entries covering fruit products and all other manufactured products from Australia contain ing sugar entered for consumption or withdrawn from ware house for consumption after 30 days after the publication of this decision in the weekly Treasury Decisions shall be sus pended pending declaration of the net amount of the bounty or grant paid or bestowed in each case and the amount of the countervailig duties to be collected. A deposit of esti mated countervailing duties in the amount of 20 pounds, 11
shillings, 8 pence Australian currency for each ton of 2240
pounds of sugar contained in fruit products, and 22 pounds, 15 shillings, 8 pence Australian currency for each ton of 2240 pounds of sugar contained in all manufactured products other than fruit products imported directly or indirectly from Australia shall be required at the time of entry in addition to the deposit of the estimated regular duties.
The facts with respect to each shipment of such merchan dise from Australia, imported directly or indirectly and entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the effective date of this decision, shall be reported promptly to the Bureau of Customs.
This treasury decision shall become effective and super sede Treasury Decision 39310, as amended by Treasury De cisions 39789 and 39812, after 30 days after publication in the weekly Treasury Decisions.
The instructions contained in Treasury Decision 39541
relating to the methods for determining the sugar contents of various products shall remain in effect.
seal
H. A. B enner ,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
Approved, September 15, 1937.
W ayne T aylor ,
Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
F. R. Doc. 37-2796; Filed, September 20,1937; 2:44 p. m .

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