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FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

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REGISTER
NUMBER 74

Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 1940
The President F iji S uspension
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B Y THE PRESIDENT OF TH E UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAM ATION
WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat.
214 U.S.C. title 46, sec. 141, provides, in part, as follows:

utory provisions above set out, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and im posts within the United States are sus pended and discontinued so far as re spects the vessels of Fiji and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Fiji or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the date of this proclamation, and to continue so long as the reciprocal ex emption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer.
IN W ITNESS WHEREOF I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be a f fixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 11 day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, seal and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty fourth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt By the President:

Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discrimi nating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, dr merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discon C ordell H u ll tinued, so far as respects the vessels of Secretary of State.
such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported No. 2395
into the United States from such foreign P. R. Doc. 40-1520; Filed, April 15, 1940;
nation, or from any other foreign coun 11:38 a. m.j try; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long N ational E m ploym ent W eek as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, B Y THE PRESIDENT OF TH E UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer
A PROCLAM ATION
AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof has been received by me from the Govern ment of F iji that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Fiji upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufac tures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FR A N K L IN
D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the stat
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamations :
Fiji, suspension of t o n n a g e duties_____________________
National Employment Week____
Executive Order:
Hawaii, restoration to, of lands comprising part of Makua Military Reservation_______

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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 9 A nim als P roducts :

and
A nim al
Bureau of Animal Industry:
Counties placed in modified tuberculosis-free accred ited areas________________ 1433
T itle 10 A r m y : W ar D epartment :
Organized Reserves:
Reserve Officers T r a i n i n g Corps, appointments from senior division_____ 1433
T itle 18 C o n s e r v a t i o n of P ow er:

Federal Power Commission:
Uniform system of accounts under Natural Gas Act, data for gas plant in struction 2-D___________

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T itle 24 H ousing C redit :

Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation:
Insurance o f accounts; surety bond____________________
_ Federal Savings and L o a n System:
Incorporation, conversion, and organization; surety Both the State and Federal govern bond____________________
ments have been especially concerned T itle 25 I n dia n s :
with the problems of older workers, many Office of Indian Affairs:
thousands of whom, despite their persist Shoshone Tribe, Wind River ent efforts, still lack a place in industry.
Reservation, Wyo., judg Among these are a considerable number ment fund share dis of World W ar Veterans, who now average bursement regulations forty-seven years of age, and who, I feel, amended________________
have a particular appeal to our national T itle 29 L abor:
sense of responsibility.
Childrens Bureau:
Our public employment service a Child labor, acceptance of nation-wide network of sixteen hundred State certificates________
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